Past Quotes
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Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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Sometimes it seemed as if the past was a painting that she had dipped in water, allowing the colours to run and drip, merge and fade so that an entirely altered landscape remained.
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My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
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We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it should be a last resort. And it needs to be used with full understanding of the consequences.
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The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
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I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
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The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
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I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.
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As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.
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'The UnAmericans' is a compassionate and brilliantly rendered debut - and for a book set largely in the past, these stories feel essential to understanding the contemporary world in which we live.
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Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.
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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
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I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
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I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.
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The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
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Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
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To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.
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I wasn't a cancer, ... It was just a point of having a deep passion for winning, and people viewed that in a different manner or whatnot. That's in the past.
