988 – “We are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

-Gore Vidal

940 – 「君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。」

“Jūnzǐ yǐ duō shì qiányán wǎng xíng, yǐ chù qí dé.”

“The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”

-Fuxi

671 – “The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.”

–T S Eliot