"It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this."
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"How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise"
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"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."
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"The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time"
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"We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless."
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"I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me."
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"All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend."
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"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
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"Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God."
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"We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."
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"It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence."
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"But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die."
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"...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights."
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"The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture."
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"the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die"
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"Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"
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"I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no."
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"I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it."
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"Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving"
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