Maya Angelou Quotes, Past Quotes, Moments Quotes

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Science Quotes , Past Quotes

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , Forget Quotes

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Grief Quotes , Past Quotes

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Past Quotes , Yesterday Quotes

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Past Quotes

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , Ends 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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Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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

During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Past Quotes

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

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Tags : Adam Garfinkle Quotes , Past Quotes , History 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

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Blessing Quotes , Past Quotes

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Games Quotes

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , One Day Quotes

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

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