Famous Quotes: Past

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.
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But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
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How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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