Do you agree or disagree with the statement that in order to solve the problems of the present and the future, people should review the past.

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Do you agree or disagree with the statement that in order to solve the problems of the present and the future, people should review the past.

As human beings, neither do we have the power to foresee the consequences nor the capability to start all over again. Therefore, we always throw ourselves into total confusion whenever we meet problems. To solve these troubles, some people refer to their so-called sixth sense while others review the past. In my opinion, I incline to the second one and my reasons are listed as follows.

First of all, experiences we have accumulated in the past set us examples to follow. Take dog for example. As is known to all, dog slobbers when it smells the bacon. Here is an experiment. A researcher showed ...

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