T. S. Eliot Quotes, Past Quotes, Historical Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

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Tags : Adrian McKinty Quotes , Book Quotes , Past Quotes

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Great Gatsby Love Quotes

If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Past Quotes , Ideas Quotes

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Past Quotes , Simple Quotes

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Past Quotes , Yesterday Quotes

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Past Quotes , History Quotes

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

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Past Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Past Quotes , Lasts Quotes

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Taken Quotes , Past Quotes

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Past Quotes , Flow Quotes

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , I Love Him Quotes , Past Quotes

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Dry Bones Quotes

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks Quotes