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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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• 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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• While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Attitude, Events, Belief

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

  Sarah Palin

  Stars, Unique, Years

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• In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Years, Nurse, Long

  "Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart Split" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 06, 2014.

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Meaning Of Life, World

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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• A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

  Bernard Crick

  Revenge, Suffering, Vengeance

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.87, University of Chicago Press

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• Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.

  Richard Russo

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Straight Man". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• I jumped in the river, what did I see?
  Black-eyed angels swam with me
  A moon full of stars and astral cars
  And all the figures I used to see
  All my lovers were there with me
  All my past and futures
  And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
  There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Angel, Rivers

  "Song: 'Pyramid Song'". 2001.

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• What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  New York, Rocks, Years

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• Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

  Gene Wolfe

  Spring, Wine, Men

  Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.329, Macmillan

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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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• In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Eye, Cosmos

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

  Hannah

  Understanding, Atrocities, Different

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Night, Rays, Stories

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• The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

  John Kurtz

  Love, Art, Looks

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• That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

  Nicola Roberts

  Girl, Men, Firsts

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• Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

  Xenocrates

  Giving, Advice, Comfort

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• The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

  Erik Naggum

  Evil, Important, Shapes

  "Stalin is not a cool name for software". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 30, 1998.

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• I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Writing, Optimistic, Hopeful

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.

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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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