Alan Dundes Quotes, Past Quotes, Worldview Quotes

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

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Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

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

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Past Quotes , Night Quotes

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Past Quotes , Drink Quotes

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

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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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Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Past Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Past Quotes

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Care 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

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

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Past Quotes , Keys Quotes

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Past Quotes , Grows Quotes

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Past Quotes , Laughing Quotes

In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Mean Quotes , Past Quotes

The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.

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