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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto."

Believe Past Buddhist
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained."

Ideas Past Ease
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be."

Believe Mind Past
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Donald Watson Environmental Activist
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"We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves."

Past Animal Civilization
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Past

"When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids."

Inspirational Past Sleep
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Milan Kundera Writer
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"We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has."

Eye Past Glances
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'"

Past Vocabulary Finding Yourself
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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
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"Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing."

War Lying Past
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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy."

Men Past Issues
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past."

Past Struggle Culture
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Alan Cohen Author
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"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny."

Past Attitude Destiny
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