Past Quotes
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It's better to keep your past and present loves separate.
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What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
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The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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I can't imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.
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I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
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In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.
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I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.
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What's important is that, when you're tested, you stand firm against the violent activities of those who would try to plunge our people back into the misery of the past.
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The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
