"Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun."
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"At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past."
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"There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better."
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"We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed."
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"One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth."
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"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."
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"Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment."
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"We celebrate the past to awaken the future."
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"But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future."
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"As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere."
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"All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions."
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"The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free."
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"The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo."
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"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light."
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"I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas."
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"You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to."
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"So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121"
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"I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now."
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"Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump."
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"The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past."
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