Quotes 81 till 100 of 503.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
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For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
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