"From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future."
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"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
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"I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live."
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"It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today."
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"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
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"Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny."
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"The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is."
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"As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death."
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"The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play."
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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
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"There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed."
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"once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore."
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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
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"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."
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"Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!"
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"The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands."
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
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"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future."
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"To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy."
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"In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you."
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