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The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.
The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.
Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.
The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.
The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.
This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones!
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.
Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.
Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.
I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.