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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain
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life
past
uncertainty
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Mohsin Hamid |
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I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself.
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india
past
understanding
wrongs
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Shashi Tharoor |
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"Decades would pass. A few short sections would be formed in time into strangely resurrected, trunkless legs-tourist sites, sacred sites, national sites.
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past
war
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Richard Flanagan |
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However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'?
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past
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Howard Pyle |
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The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.
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future
past
perception
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Jeanette Winterson |
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"Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you."
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brittney
class
father
future
mother
mrs-peterson
paco-fuentes
parents
past
seating-arrangements
son
test
twenty-three-years-later
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Simone Elkeles |
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If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.
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future
heritage
legacy
metaphor
past
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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"The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. [...] Oannes did not do his work alone but was supposedly the leader of a group of beings known as the Seven Apkallu--the "Seven Sages"--who were said to have lived "before the flood" (a cataclysmic global deluge features prominently in many Mesopotamian traditions, including those of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon). Alongside Oannes, these sages are portrayed as bringers of civilization who, in the most ancient past, gave humanity a moral code, arts, crafts and agriculture and taught them architectural, building and engineering skills."
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archeology
cataclysm
civilization
flood
humanity
past
seven-sages
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Graham Hancock |
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The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it's our will alone that leads us to one or the other.
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fate
glory
hope
love
past
prison
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Gregory David Roberts |