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A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.
in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!
Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.
Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.
I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.
There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.
People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.
Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?
You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.
Progressivism is the cancer in America, and it is eating our Constitution. It was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.
I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.
The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.
The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.
Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.