Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Past Quotes, Important Quotes

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes

The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Past Quotes , World 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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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

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Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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Tags : Adam Johnson Quotes , Past Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

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

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Past Quotes

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.

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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Past Quotes

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Past Quotes , Age Quotes

If You Want To Know Your Past, Look Into Your Present Conditions. If You Want To Know Your Future, Look Into Your Present Actions.

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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

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