Past
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up — just as we did 'so long ago'.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
I thought I knew what love was before giving birth to my baby, but whatever I had experienced in the past paled in comparison to the utterly unconditional love I immediately felt for the little bundle I now held in my arms.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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