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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, Future, Past
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.