Past Quotes
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Edith Wharton
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Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.
Jakob Bohme
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
R. M. Williams
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Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
Kelley Armstrong
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Johan Huizinga
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Bill Nye
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With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
Jami Attenberg
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In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
David Fahrenthold
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Personally, I wrapped things up with my past a while ago and I don't know whether this signals the end, but it definitely signals a beginning. And I think we're all here because of that beginning.
Robert DeLeo
Stone Temple Pilots
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The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.
D. Michael Quinn
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In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
Virginia Foxx
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The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
Clayton Christensen
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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'One white rose . . . or is it pink, to-day?'They pause and smile, not caring what they say,If only they may talk.The crowd flows past them like dividing waters.Dreaming they stand, dreaming they walk.
Conrad Aiken
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade
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To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
Napoleon Hill
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The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
Ken Hensley
