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• I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Memories, Block

  "Valentines & Vitriol". Book by Rex Reed, 1977.

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• The past is not a package one can lay away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Packages, Lays

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Letting Go, Heartbroken, Regret

  "The Creation Of Human Ability". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1954.

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• Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

  Bil Keane

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Path, Tradition

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

  Marie Osmond

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The past is never dead. It's not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Heredity And Environment, History

  Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)

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• Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Lying, Giants, Body

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance”, p.197

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• My past is everything I failed to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Failure, My Past

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• The past does not equal the future.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Humorous, Future

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2009

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• Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

  Steve Berry

  Moving Forward, Study, Confucianism

  Steve Berry (2010). “The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape): A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Hard Times, Over You

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• You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Great Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Nick

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.83, Oldcastle Books

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• Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Ready, Expressive

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• We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

  Ezra Pound

  Time, Here And There, May

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.253, New Directions Publishing

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• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Wicked, Alive

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

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• This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

  Agathon

  Time, Power, Denied

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• The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

  Robertson Davies

  Future, People, World

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• History is past politics, and politics is present history.

  Edward Augustus Freeman

  History, Political

  1886 Methods of Historical Study.

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• In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Errors, Drawing

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.208

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• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Letting Go, Criminal Mind, Ifs

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• The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

  Francois Fenelon

  War, Book, Age

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• The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Whole

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.99, CUP Archive

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