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116 quotesNothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Past
George Ade
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There is no time of life past learning something.
Learning
St. Ambrose
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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
Past
Kenneth Auchincloss
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Death and Dying
Red Auerbach
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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
Past
Ivern Ball
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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Vision
Joel A. Barker
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Past
John Berger
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness
Paul Boese
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Forget the past and live the present hour.
Present
Sarah Knowles Bolton
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Perseverance
Christian Nevell Bovee
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Change
Warren Buffett
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers and Writing
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
Age and Aging
Billie Burke
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Planning
Edmund Burke
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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
Virtue
George Bush
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
Present
George Carlin
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Past
Thomas Carlyle
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Fidel Castro
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Fools and Foolishness
Miguel De Cervantes
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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Present
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Time and Time Management
Winston Churchill
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Memory
Marcus T. Cicero
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Sorrow
Marcus T. Cicero
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Study the past if you would divine the future.
Past
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun