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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies ... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa... 
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. 
All the things that are in the past are in the past. 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me bel... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... 
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. 
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves... 
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the... 
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. 
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You ... 
Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are n... 
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and... 
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... 
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. 
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. 
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as ... 
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. 
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. 
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. 
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on ... 
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. Wha... 
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but ... 
dont let the old break you; let the love make you 
Long after the poor departed have gone from our hearts, their insignificant dust continues to be min... 
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. 
I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back. 
Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying... 
My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. 
We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain. 
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ... 
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ... 
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
It is a lie. 
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers. 
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... 
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. 
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and i... 
Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only th... 
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, ... 
I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more. 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. 
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past 
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past 
Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus o... 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it ... 
Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want me... 
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. 
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... 
Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - ... 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then p... 
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the... 
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the es... 
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are ... 
War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. I... 
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies ... 
The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f... 
It is not the position, but the disposition. 
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. 
To destroy is always the first step in any creation. 
Nothing recedes like progress. 
He without fear is king of the world. 
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th... 
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur... 
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona... 
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage... 
I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. 
When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t... 
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. 
..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.