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past influence vain
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come. Charles Caleb Colton
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past dangerous-situations risk
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies. Alan Watts
past games matter
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
past listening life-is-like
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
history use principles
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume
history remembered
What is not recorded is not remembered. Benazir Bhutto
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history morality interest
History is not written in the interests of morality. Agnes Repplier
history favors may
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
history fluid ifs
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
history serial-killer wells
If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy. Charles Manson
history twenties hindsight
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. Billy Wilder
forget traps dangerous
The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists. Aiden Wilson Tozer
forget future ourselves prepared relationship towards
We are prepared to forget the past, to look towards the future and to accommodate ourselves with a new relationship with America. Ricardo Alarcon
forget-everything forget forget-it
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
forget happens
Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me. John Fowles
forget happened understand
We have to get over what happened and understand that we have something to play for. We just have to forget about it.
forget fortune forsake
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. Charlotte Bronte
forget snoopy brown
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... How can I ever forget them... Charles M. Schulz
forget forget-you jew
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you. Bernard Malamud
forget lose
You don?t lose the championship and forget about it. That?s always going to be there. Geno Auriemma