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Our scars make us know that our past was for real

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There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Past Quotes , Preparation Quotes

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Government Quotes

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

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Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes , May Quotes

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Past Quotes , Events Quotes

The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Past Quotes

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

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

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Real Quotes , Past Quotes

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Past Quotes , Two 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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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

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Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

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A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Past Quotes , Punishment Quotes