A. R. Ammons Quotes, Past Quotes, Men Quotes

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks 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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If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Past Quotes , Usual Quotes

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

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You change the past when you change the way you see it.

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The past is not what it was.

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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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

We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.

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Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

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But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

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