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It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.
The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.
I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.
It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.
Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.
I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.
My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.
You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.
It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.
Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.
We'll run a lot of multiple sets - pro set, twin set, the box set, ... We'll run a lot of option plays and pass the ball more than in the past.
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.
Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.
Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.
Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, all countries will respect America far more when I'm leading it, far more than they do under past administrations.
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.