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" Quotes and Sayings About the past

I know I can't change the past. But as the river keep flowing I'd keep on moving on.

Asa
Moving Know Change Past
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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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.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Laid Egg Past
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Past Pioneer Future Prisoner
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Rich Invent
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Present Control Future Past
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Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Repeat Remember Past Condemned
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Present Erase Past One
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Future Past Change Law
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

Down Life Past Move
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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Think Past Bring Many
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The future for me is already a thing of the past. You were my first love and you will be my last.

Future Already Past Thing
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
With Eyes Walk Past
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
About Learn Lessons Make
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Accumulate Conception Education Filling
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They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Fast Past Progress Live
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Grace Wallow Guilt Remorse
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I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Advice Been Faithful Future
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

Cannot Iraq Misguided Past
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Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Control Freedom Important Learning
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Better Divided Future Learn
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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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.
Acting Day Future Gone
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Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

Able Achieve Front Try
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I appreciate the mistakes I made in the past cause it is shaping my future.

Appreciate Cause Future Past
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Freedom Effort Present Store
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I have come to launch a campaign of ideas, not one of calumny. I have come to preach love, not hate. I have come to break you away from divisive tendencies of the past which have slowed our drive to true nationhood. I have no enemies to fight. You are all my friends and we share a common destiny.

Destiny Friend Share Common
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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Present Past Includes Who
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Like To Use Hard
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Here Past Pleasant Better
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Either Erase Great Great Place
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Careful Forget Get In The Past
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Greatest Error Biggest Deception
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Because Life Live Most
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Bring Long Long Time Past
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future Make Only Past
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Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

About Connected Feel Future
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Future Influences Just Just As Much
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Abstract Beauty Future Past
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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I know I can’t change the past, but as the river keeps flowing, I’ll keep on moving on.

Asa
Moving Keep Past Change
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Today is the past of your future. So, make today count for the sake of your history. Use your words, time and choices wisely.

Wisely Time Choices Today
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Not everything in your past qualifies to be called history; only the things in the past that shaped your future.

History Past Shaped Future
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We are not going to dwell on the past, we are always looking forward to the next game.
Always Dwell Forward Game
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Condemned Past Remember Repeat
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

Action Discover Duty Endeavor
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