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past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past illusion ability
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
past people skinny
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. David Arquette
past decision architect
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Dan Brown
past native-language environmental
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates. Daniel Yergin
past yesterday age
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. Ambrose Bierce
past feet stuck
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis
past essence opposites
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
past festivals terrible
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men remembrance desire
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. Lord Alfred Tennyson
men ignorant exciting
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
men want honest
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
knowing sin wells
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves. Blaise Pascal
knowing planets persons
I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet. Thomas Haden Church
knowing heaven pieces
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it. Vernor Vinge
knowing
Stop learning. Start knowing Rumi
knowing action sequence
I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to. Tony Gilroy
knowing years months
I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now. Stephen Collins
knowing height thyself
Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom. Socrates
knowing imagine figures
So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between. Neil deGrasse Tyson
knowing discovery path
When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.