Past
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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.
Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise — repeal all compromises — repeal the Declaration of Independence — repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
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