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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

Time Happiness Past Thepresent

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfacti

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Marcus Valerius Martial

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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imaginatio

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

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We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Life Future Past Present Thoughts

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Thomas H. Raddal

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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of y

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Future Past Present Eternity

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wa

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Kenneth Auchincloss

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerat

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Robert Jacob Goodkin

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What is past is prologue.

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

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The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your mas

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Teacher Past Inspirational Learn Master

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rew

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you ha

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growt

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnson

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The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

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