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I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. — Dave Barry
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night. — Al McGuire
Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a… — Spencer W. Kimball
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and… — Archibald Rutledge
This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list,… — Anthony Jeselnik
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair. — Rod McKuen
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. — Ziggy Marley
I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I… — Juliette Binoche
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. — Henny Youngman
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. — Hugh Leonard
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of… — Ajahn Brahm
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope.… — Dorothy Rowe
Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over… — Sean Covey
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence… — Eckhart Tolle
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another… — Marianne Williamson
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled… — George Whitefield
Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will… — John Flavel
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at… — Galileo Galilei
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time… — Fred Hoyle
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated… — Karl Pearson

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