Past Quotes
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Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.
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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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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with 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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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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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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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.
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He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
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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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To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
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I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.
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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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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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The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
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The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
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For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.
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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 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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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the 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 love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
