Carl Sagan Quotes, Self Esteem Quotes, Past Quotes

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Past Quotes , History Quotes

The past is not a package one can lay away.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Past Quotes , Packages Quotes

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Past Quotes

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Lying Quotes , Past Quotes

Past art is subject to change.

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I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Past Quotes , Redemption Quotes

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Past Quotes

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Past Quotes , Magic Quotes

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Mean Quotes , Past Quotes

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Art Quotes , Past Quotes

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Littles Quotes

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Past Quotes , Moon Quotes

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

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There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Past Quotes , Preparation Quotes

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

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Tags : Akio Morita Quotes , School Quotes , Past Quotes

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes