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View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross.
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Was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
Quoted in Anne-Marie OConnor, Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his countrys future, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006 -
We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.
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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
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We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build a bridge to the future, and that is what I commit to you to do! So tonight, let us resolve to build that bridge to the 21st century.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
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We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
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We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003) -
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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