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- And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than…
- Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy…
- Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man…
- Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the…
- As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on…
- But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,…
- The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the…
- Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
- The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into…
- My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
- This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence…
- I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which…
- And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would…
- Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the…
- Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept…
- A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist…
- To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and…
- Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to…
- We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
- But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou…
- There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not…
- In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience -…
- The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
- For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach