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We can't change the past. We can only get ready for the future.
The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. A series of mutations could change us into all kinds of intermediate species. Whether or not those intermediate species are provably in the past, they could easily be in our future.
The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change.