Past Quotes
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Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
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Whereas the future had once beckoned with many intriguing paths, now there was just one impossible route. So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.
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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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Love isn't love until it's past.
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Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
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Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
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I go to my past in order to discern the future.
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After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.
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When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.
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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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I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past.
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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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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People talk to me all the time about sexual harassment. This sort of behavior did not only happen in the past. And it's not in just the working class. It's in every industry. It's in the military. It's in politics.
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Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.
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Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.
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It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
