"The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live."
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"And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the body’s shining length was inside a star, and will be again."
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"It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past."
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"The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.""
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"Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present."
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"If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter."
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"People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are."
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"The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened."
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"Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures"."
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"Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on."
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"We're not going to think about what's happened in the past."
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"Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about."
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"Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous."
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"It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force."
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"Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger."
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"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."
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"Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember."
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"To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived."
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"Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future"
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"The brain heals the past like an injury."
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