Past Quotes
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I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
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Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
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In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
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Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
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Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.
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Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.
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Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
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Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.
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Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.
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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
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I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
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In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
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To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
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I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
