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I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started. — Donald Rumsfeld
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know… — Malcolm X
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very… — Abraham Lincoln
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only… — Alexander Pope
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. — Elie Wiesel
How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that… — Jackie Kay
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. — Walter Lippmann
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future. — Laurence J. Peter
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. — Lewis B. Smedes
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. — Lance Morrow
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by… — Khalil Gibran
I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings.… — Esther Hicks
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total… — Mort Walker
It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of… — Douglas MacArthur
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you.… — Russell Simmons
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much… — Richard Dean Anderson
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past… — Barbara Boxer

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