Famous Quotes: Past

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.
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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
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For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
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I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
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Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
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I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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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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