Charles Dickens Quotes, Past Quotes, Scrooge Quotes

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

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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

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Past 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

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Past Quotes , Politics Quotes

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

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

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Past Quotes , Worry Quotes

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Children Quotes , Past Quotes

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Past 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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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Past Quotes , Foolish Quotes

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Past Quotes , Dust Quotes

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Past Quotes , Disrespect Quotes

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Taken Quotes , Past Quotes

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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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

Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Past Quotes