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…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
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- Chaim Potok
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- Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Chaim Potok: life dates 1929 to 2002. Wikidata Q560735, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q560735 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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