Past Quotes
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No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy
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Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past.
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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
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Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
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That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.
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We've walked that balance between celebrating the past and celebrating the future, what we hope it to be.
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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
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That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
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It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
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I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
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An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
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Going back to the past is not productive.
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The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.
