Quotes with past

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  • Bob Hope When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bob Hope When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Caitriona Balfe When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • John Lyly Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Bob Harper Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
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    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Cowley Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Boxer With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ray Bradbury Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Gloria Steinem Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bil Keane Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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