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Tag Name "Past" (6521)

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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
W. H. Auden
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Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.
Anderson Cooper
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Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.
Anatoli Boukreev
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
Anatole France
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Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.
Henry M. Morris
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
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To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
W. S. Merwin
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
Anais Nin
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I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.
Gemma Ward
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It is bad enough to know the past it would be intolerable to know the future.
W. Somerset Maugham
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When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
Henry Louis Gates
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I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
Walker Percy
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Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
Tryon Edwards
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy
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We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.
Dwyane Wade
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I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?
Amy Waldman
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
Amy Tan
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The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
Wallace Stevens
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I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.
Cameron Dokey
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
China Mieville
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
Walt Disney
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When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.
C. Scott Grow
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