We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.