Past Quotes
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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.
Catherine Crowe
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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
Bruce Sterling
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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
Willem Dafoe
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The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.
Chip Pitts
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Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.
Michael Moorcock
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Adora Svitak
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
George Boas
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In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U.S. government.
Evo Morales
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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
Dan Barker
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What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?
Stacey Dash
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On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
Christine Caine
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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.
Caroline Norton
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You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
Tony Blair
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How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
William Gaddis
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What happens in our future can change the meaning of what has happened in our past.
John Twelve Hawks
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I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
Richard Rorty
