No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

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