"No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now."
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"The future will soon be a thing of the past."
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"I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it."
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"And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."
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"Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past."
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"You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!"
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"You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist."
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"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
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"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."
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"The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering."
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"No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities."
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"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future."
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
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"The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy."
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"Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes."
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"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
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"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."
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"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future."
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"We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community."
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"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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