Past Quotes
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Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
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There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
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When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
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People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
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It's easy to look into the future and worry about the past.
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
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Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
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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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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.
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I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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The past never has anything new to say, so just hang up.
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I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
