Past Quotes
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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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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
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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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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
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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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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.
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Court is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.
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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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To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect.
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
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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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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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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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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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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?
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.
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You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
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The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
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Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.
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By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.
