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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.
Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.
A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.
I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated
That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.
Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.
Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.