Quotes 241 till 260 of 503.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
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My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
An Ideal Husband (1895) -
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
White Noise (2011) 210 -
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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O'er the trackless past somewhere lie the lost days of our tropic youth.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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