Past Quotes
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I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
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Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
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You win and you're in; you lose and you're out. We've been in that situation the past four weeks, ever since the three (consecutive) losses (in November).
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Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
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You can only understand the present age when it is past.
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'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
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I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.
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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
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I learned from my past.
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Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.
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In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
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Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,The hours fly past;With each some sorrow dies,With each some shadow flies,Until at lastThe red dawn in the eastBids weary night depart,And pain is past.
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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
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I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
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The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
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You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
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Think about the past to learn, but move forward.
