Mark Twain Quotes, Past Quotes, Years Quotes

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , Thinking Quotes

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.

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Tags : Alan M. Taylor Quotes , Country Quotes , Past Quotes

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Past Quotes , Fiction Quotes

But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , War Quotes , Past Quotes

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Past Quotes , Issues Quotes

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Parent Quotes

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Past Quotes , Organization Quotes

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Brother Quotes , Past Quotes

I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Children Quotes , Past Quotes

The past is not what it was.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Past Quotes , Progress Quotes

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Passion Quotes , Past Quotes

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Government Quotes

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Past Quotes , Community Quotes