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‘There is a Party slogan dealing with the control of the past, said O'Brien. 'Repeat it, if you please.’
‘ ‘‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past, ’’ ’ repeated Winston obediently.
From Orwell’s ’Nineteen Eighty-four’ of course, and as applicable now as when he published it, in 1949.