"I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future."
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"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
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"All tradition is merely the past."
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"If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process."
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"And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't."
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"The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have laid the foundation and developed our quality corporals and sergeants."
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"I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical."
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"Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change."
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"True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need."
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"Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future."
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"Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity."
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"Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me."
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"Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present."
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"I don't want my past to become anyone else's future."
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"Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways."
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"A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed."
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"I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past."
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"Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness."
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"It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past."
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