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• Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Today, Shapes, Tomorrow

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• I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

  Bill Bright

  Forever, Spirit, Christ

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• Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

  Tryon Edwards

  Regret, Apology, World

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.240

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• If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

  Craig Shirley

  Trials, Ifs

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• The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Play, Wisest Man

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Example, Action, Witness

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• How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Thinking, Names

  Washington Irving (2012). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.

  Mark Oliver

  Crush, Struggle, Thinking

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• The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, Jumping, Years

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• A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Character, Successful

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.39

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• Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Years, Practice, Violence

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• It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Samadhi, Erase

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• Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

  Bill Crawford

  Determine, Meaningless

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• The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

  Bill Crawford

  Keys, Pie, Expectations

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• Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Remembrance, Albums

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Technology, Reality

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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• We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

  David Branch

  Grateful, Opportunity, Able

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• Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

  Neil LaBute

  Years, Long, Office

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• During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Years, Meditation

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• Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, California, People

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• Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

  Sylvia Earle

  Earth, Deeper, Distillation

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Television, Our Society, Way

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• The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

  Bill Crawford

  Mean, Mind, Factual

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• Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Understanding, Adequate

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, History, Age

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.2, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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