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• What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

  Alex Blumberg

  Years, Tape, Answers

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• It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth.

  Kaskade

  Impossible, States

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Any time you lose a few in a row, you have to hit reset and come back tomorrow and do the best you can to forget about how the past series went. It's frustrating. Individually it's frustrating. I'm trying to figure it out. And I know as a team, it sucks losing a few in a row any time. So you know, we'll snap out of it.

  Adam LaRoche

  Team, Trying, Tomorrow

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• I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Habit, Quaint, Refugee

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Opportunity, Equality, Support

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

  Nora Ephron

  Reality, Infidelity, Brain

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.64, Vintage

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• Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Sorrow, Capacity

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.18, A&C Black

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• We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cheer, Laughter, Memories

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• The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

  Agnes Repplier

  Foolish, Subtle, Delusion

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• The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Progress

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.56

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• What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Hard

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• But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Law, May, Should

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• The past is our very being.

  David Ben-Gurion

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• science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Discovery, Long

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

  Simone Weil

  Entering, Eternity, States

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.

  John Lyly

  Father, Son, Hands

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.33, Manchester University Press

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• By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

  Jeremy Collier

  Running, Plato, Reading

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• We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

  Harold Bloom

  Journey, Three, Rereading

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

  Margaret Fuller

  Dust, Voice, Long

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad”, p.229

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• Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Future, Mindfulness, Holding On

  B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

  Barbara Holland

  New York, Bedtime, Drink

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Family, Ties, Long

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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• Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

  Lauren Bacall

  Instant, Dies

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