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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. — Alfred North Whitehead
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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton
If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day… — Tony Robbins
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of… — Jacques Barzun
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those… — Martin Seligman
In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our… — Terry Tempest Williams
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a… — Henri Nouwen
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past. — Hermione Gingold
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's… — Jane Lynch
We are tomorrow's past. — Mary Webb
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. — Studs Terkel
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one… — Tom Cruise
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G. Wells
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. — Dan Quayle
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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