"Embrace your past, but live for now."
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"Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me."
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"I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."
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"People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love."
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"Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight."
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"You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past."
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"My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute."
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"I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past."
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"a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos."
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"Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . ."
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"All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you."
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"The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free."
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"Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past."
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"Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity."
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"I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow."
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"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."
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"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past."
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"A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged."
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"I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind."
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"Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... ."
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