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Comedy (play)1 quote
What's past is prologue. — William Shakespeare · 1616Epic poem1 quote
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer · 700 BCPolitical speech1 quote
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro · 1961Religious literature1 quote
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. — Ecclesiastes 1:9 · 931 BC