Past Quotes
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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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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 backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.
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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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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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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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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished 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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He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
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You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!
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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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You find new love not to forget the past love. But you forget the past because of that new love.
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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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I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.
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Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make a significant break with the past. And Hillary Clinton is a person - whether you like it or not - of extraordinary experience. I don't know if we ever had a presidential candidate with that level of political experience. There's no learning curve for her. And that, in some periods, would be a huge plus. In the end, I think it will be a significant plus for her now.
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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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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.
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Getting to the future is always held up by those trying to protect the past.
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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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The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
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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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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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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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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.
