Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

Invent a past for the present.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

Most of your reactions are echoes from the past.
You do not really live in the present.

The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future