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• Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Realizing, Heal, Pointless

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• The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

  Vince Cable

  House, Transformation, Week

  Vincent Cable during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 28, 2007.

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• I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Albums, Labels

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

  James McCosh

  Christian, Humility, Views

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

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• The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Tomorrow

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Divorce, Ideas

  "Beach nut". Interview with Sue Wheat, www.salon.com. February 11, 2000.

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• The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

  Benjamin Graham

  Gold, Commodity, Intrinsic Value

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham.Part III, Chapter X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p. 127, 1937.

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• The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Light, Years, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

  Bill Keller

  Jobs, Powerful, Long

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Littles, Life Is, Bits

  Source: collider.com

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• I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Bridges, Needs

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• It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Party, Responsibility

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• We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Believe, Agency

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Angel, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

  James Russell Lowell

  Safe, Incessant, Comes And Goes

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.

  Adam Sandler

  Believe, Kids, Done

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

  Steven Spielberg

  Years, Done, Film

  Abagnale & Associates - Home, www.abagnale.com.

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• It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

  Michael Foot

  Country, Rights, Judging

  Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

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• There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Rocks, Years

  "Sir Paul has just written manure for years", www.scotsman.com. July 2, 2002.

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• Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.

  Ted Hughes

  Depth, Nightfall, England

  Ted Hughes (2010). “Lupercal”, p.52, Faber & Faber

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• I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, People, Tradition

  Message to the Nation on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Pakistan, August 14, 1948.

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• To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

  Paul Krugman

  Sacrifice, Skills, People

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Years, Soldier, Hindenburg

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• [The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  Yann Martel

  Fate, Animal, Hatred

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.97, Knopf Canada

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• I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

  Terrell Owens

  Running, Cameras, Gestures

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