Past Quotes
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For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.
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In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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[Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.
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But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
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When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, “now when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.
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In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
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One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.
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In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.
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An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.
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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
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What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
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I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.
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Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.
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As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions.
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The past is history, the future's a mystery.
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Oh, there at last, life's trials past, We'll meet our loved ones more, Whose feet have trod the path to God, - Not lost, but gone before.
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Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.
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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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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
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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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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
