"We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us."

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Source : "The natural history of nonsense". Book by Bergen Evans, 1946.

Bergen Evans

#Past Quotes #May Quotes

“The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.”
“I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.”
“I quit because I canâ€™t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”
“I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.”
“The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.”
“People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.”
“The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.”
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”

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