Warren Buffett Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Past Quotes

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Brother Quotes , Past Quotes

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Past Quotes

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Past Quotes , Destiny Quotes

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

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

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Life Quotes , Past Quotes

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Past Quotes

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

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Tags : Alan Shearer Quotes , Past Quotes , Games Quotes

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Diving Deep Quotes

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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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Rivers Quotes

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Past Quotes

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

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Tags : A. B. Yehoshua Quotes , Truth Quotes , Past Quotes

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Past Quotes , Rising Quotes

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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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Grief Quotes , Past Quotes

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

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Tags : Ajahn Brahm Quotes , Past Quotes , Alive Quotes

The past is prologue.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Past Quotes , House Quotes