Quotes 301 till 320 of 503.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The crux of the accounting problem with intangibles is that to know the past, one must know the future.
Intangibles: Management, Measurement and Reporting (2001) -
The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Second State of the Union address (1862) -
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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