Past Quotes
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No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
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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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Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.
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"Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.
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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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I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.
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Love isn't love until it's past.
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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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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 me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's funny how the present can change the 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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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 have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I’m not giving a lesson or a sermon, I’m offering a dialogue, as I said before.
