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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. — Warren Buffett
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? — Julie Burchill
You can never plan the future by the past. — Edmund Burke
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. — George Burns
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the… — Abdallah II
Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep. — Sophia Bush
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. — Samuel Butler
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into… — Buzz Aldrin
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. — Lord Byron
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional… — Christopher Alexander
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. — John Calvin
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window.… — Billy Campbell
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! — Tony Campolo
I don't care about the past. — Eric Cantona
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories. — Eric Cantona
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have… — Mariah Carey
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. — Thomas Carlyle
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. — Lewis Carroll
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every… — Muhammad Ali
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. — Graydon Carter
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's… — Graydon Carter

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