Famous Quotes: Past

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.
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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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I was very sexual from a very young age.
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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
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Disarmament requires trust.
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I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
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I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
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Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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