Past Quotes
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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
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We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.
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A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.
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I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
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If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'
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Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
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I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
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An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
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Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.
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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.
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Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
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What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
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The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.
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I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?
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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
