Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

Carrie

Sex and the City

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Topic

Letting go of the past The past

Speaker

Carrie

Actor

Sarah Jessica Parker

Source

Sex and the City

Medium

TV program

Genre

Romantic comedy (TV) Comedy (TV) Romantic comedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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"Anchors Away." Sex and the City, written by Darren Star and Michael Patrick King and Candace Bushnell, directed by Charles McDougall, season 5, episode 1, Darren Star Productions, 2002.

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This only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone.

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Aristotle
Source
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Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 7, ch. 2.

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