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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it… — Marcel Proust
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary migrations in recorded… — George W. Bush
We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea… — Jack Kemp
When we have had in the past programs that have said that the people who come here illegally are going to get to stay illegally… — Mitt Romney
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. — Dalai Lama
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris
This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain… — Unknown Author
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. — Arnaud Desjardins
Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment… — Benjamin Boukpeti
It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete… — Terrence Trammell
The past is a funeral gone by. — Edmund Gosse
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering! — Ashleigh Brilliant
No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it. — Charles S. Maier
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300… — Gaylord Nelson
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as… — Alfred North Whitehead
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures… — Alfred North Whitehead
Remembering the past gives power to the present. — Unknown Author
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre… — George A. Sheehan
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past. — John Cale
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your… — Eckhart Tolle

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