T. S. Eliot Quotes, Past Quotes, Historical Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Past Quotes , Issues Quotes

The past is not what it was.

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

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

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Tags : Adrian McKinty Quotes , Book Quotes , Past Quotes

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Grief Quotes , Past Quotes

For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Learning Quotes , Past Quotes

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Great Gatsby Important Quotes

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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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

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Future Quotes , Past Quotes

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Past Quotes

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Future Quotes , Past Quotes

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Lying Quotes , Past Quotes

I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

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