Past Quotes
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Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
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My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
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Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can’t hurt anyone.
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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
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That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.
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in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.
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Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.
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That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.
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God never consults your past to make your future.
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Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
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It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.
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Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
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My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.
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You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.
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I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.
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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
