Past Quotes
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Getting to the future is always held up by those trying to protect the past.
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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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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.
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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.
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The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
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You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
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Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.
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FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!
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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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I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!
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Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
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I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.
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I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.
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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
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Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
