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The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.
Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.
Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.
I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.
If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.
The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.
You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.
But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.
Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.
I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.
And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.