Past Quotes
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
