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| A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory |
| John Steinbeck |
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| For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment |
| Mark Twain |
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| God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians |
| Samuel Butler |
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| He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. |
| George Orwell |
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| I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change. |
| Bob Dylan |
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| I like men who have a future and women who have a past |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. |
| Sophia Loren |
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| If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? |
| Art Hoppe |
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| In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice |
| Winston Churchill |
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Lessons taught but never learned,
all around us anger burns.
Guide the future by the past.
Long ago the mould was cast. |
| Neil Peart |
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| No man is rich enough to buy back his past. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future |
| John Ruskin |
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| Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. |
| Wayne Dyer |
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| Study the past if you would divine the future |
| Confucius |
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