Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
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The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future..
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Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
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I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.
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This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)
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Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present.
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Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.
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Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
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Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
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Hy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present
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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is
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To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
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The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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