The past has to inform the present.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past is where its supposed to be.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
Past is past.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
The past is what the past is.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.