The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small,… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs… — Alan Brinkley Copy Share Image
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek.… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Ideas need to stand out to be noticed. There is so much noisy information out there that if your message is bland,… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do… — Eileen Caddy Copy Share Image
With Metavoid, I wanted to move forward with the Lustmord sound, rather than recreating past works such as Heresy or Black Stars,… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past,… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
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Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
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