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Letter "P" » Past
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«We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.»
«To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Glory,
Past,
People,
The Present
| Keywords:
essential condition, glories
«We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| About:
Past,
Trust
| Keywords:
mistrust, provide, provide for, safety
«We are tomorrow's past.»
«Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.»
«We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Future,
Past
| Keywords:
humanly, remembering, welcome, welcomed, welcomes, welcoming
«Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past
| Keywords:
class, classes, middle class, The Middle Class, upper, uppers, upper class
«To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.»
«Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Doubt,
Juries and Judges,
Past
| Keywords:
conclusions, past times
«The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.»
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