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• One of the great threats to our national security is social cohesion. If people no longer believe that you can start out anywhere and end up at the top successfully in America, that the American dream is part of the past, I think that erodes a sense of belief and confidence in our nation.

  Joel Klein

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Proud, Merit

  "Condoleezza Rice Holds News Conference on Iran". www.washingtonpost.com. May 31, 2006.

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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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• The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Powerful, People

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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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• 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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• I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

  Judith Hill

  Pressure, Nervous, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Promise, Records

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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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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• I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

  Akio Morita

  School, Records, Matter

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 145), 1986.

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• No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

  Sarada Devi

  Karma, Doubt, Suffering

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 361), 2004.

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• Love isn't love until it's past.

  Prince

  Love, Love Is

  Song: Sometimes It Snows In April

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• No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

  Prince

  Brother, Maturity, Animal

  Song: Animal Kingdom, Album: The Truth

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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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• Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

  Ann Coulter

  Say Anything, Unfair, Said

  "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)". Book by Ann Coulter, 2004.

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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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• 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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• I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

  Robert E. Howard

  Cloaks, Worn, Worn Out

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

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• While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

  Robert E. Howard

  Book, Flying, Veils

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.316, Del Rey

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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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• The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.

  Paul Krugman

  Taken, Successful, Self

  "Enemies of the WTO", Slate Magazine, November 24, 1999.

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