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"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil." »Pearl Bailey
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"Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past." »George Steiner
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"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life." »Joan Lunden
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"I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you" »Ty Howard
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"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee
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"People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled." »Norman Mailer
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"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past." »George Steiner
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"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." »Dr. Dale E. Turner
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"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone." »Richard von Weizscker
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"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition." »Israel Zangwill
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"The past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition." »Israel Zangwill
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"Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don’t need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Don’t swear at your past; you couldn’t existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes." »Denis Watley
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"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened." »Gerald W. Johnston
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"The past is only the present become invisible and mute and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and it's murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past." »Mary Webb
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"It's better to let the past be buried in the past itself,because if not so it hinders the working of the present and future.Those dreams which didn't turn true before was because there's some better dream yet to come into light.So never long for those memories to be alive again,let them remain memories itself because you never know that your life's chronicle still holds your most beautiful and the best dream ever which it's going to reveal later.
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay." »Eric Hoffer
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"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future." »Stephen Ambrose
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"The past is but the past of a beginning." »H. G. Wells
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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." »George Orwell
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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." »George Orwell
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." »George Orwell
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"In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere." »Maxim Gorky
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"I think we agree, the past is over." »George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
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"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here." »Finley Peter Dunne
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