Quotes with past

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• The past does not equal the future.

  Anthony Robbins
  American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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• The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

  John Berger
  English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
  

  Bill Cosby
  American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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• The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

  The Regeneration Trilogy (1996)

  Pat Barker
  British writer (1943 - )
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• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The past is at least secure.

  Daniel Webster
  American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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• The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

  Bruce Springsteen
  American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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• The past is not a package one can lay away.

  Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

  Mary Webb
  English novelist and poet
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• The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King
  American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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• The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

  Edward Thomas
   
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• The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future

  Dean Koontz
  American writer and screenwriter (born 1945) (1945 - )
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• The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

  Ivern Ball
  American author (1926 - 1992)
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• The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

  Sebastian Faulks
  British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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• The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
  

  Stephen Hawking
  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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• The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

  John Welch
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accumulations
• possibilities
• importance
• infinitely
• historical
• accelerate

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