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Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I like the dreams of the future, better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

George Washington

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Sophocles

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

Sir George Savile

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Scott Westerfeld

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Dale Carnegie

How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind?

Douglas Adams

Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Confucius

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Samuel Butler

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George F. Burns

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Robert Henri

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

William Faulkner

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Peter McWilliams

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Baruch Spinoza

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Carl Sagan

I think we agree, the past is over.

George W. Bush

We have to congratulate ourselves (that) given all political volatility in the past several months we were able to conduct the first election in the new millennium.

Rigoberto Tiglao

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

George Carlin

Young people in Taiwan do not have a clear idea of what the event was about and lessons have to be taught to the young people because it's in the past. Once they learn more about it, they will love the place they live in even more.

Dan Bloom

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher

(Blair) isn't revealing anything that people are hiding. We had always hoped we would only use the interest, and we have gone past that, and we are concerned. But we are being as aggressive ... in finding other funding sources.

Michael English

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word...we are screaming inside, oh, but we can't be heard...so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose...clinging to a past.

Sarah Mclachlan

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Cicero

We also see that there are no U.S. sanctions imposed against the local company, or even if the company was cited by the Federal Trade Commission for shipping violations in the past.

Donald Leo

I was over in Orange Beach this past weekend and all people wanted to know was when was the Isle going to open. I've gotten calls at my home from Atlanta, Arkansas, Jacksonville, Fla., and Lafayette, La.

Bobby Carter

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

I wouldn't be at all surprised. In the past, these two airlines have talked and they have very little route overlap.

Helane Becker

I'm now going through, and indeed have been over the past week, a process in which I will be making an announcement in the next few days.

Peter Hain

We know what those teams have accomplished in the past. But we want to win it all. We feel we have a good shot at that with this team.

Anthony Weeden

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

But most people don't believe the bill will past the final two readings.

Bill Huang

Insurance is really based on looking at the past.

Don Griffin

The biggest mistake of economists over the past 20 years ... We've consistently underestimated growth.

Mark Vitner

Orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.

Tom Delay

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Terry Eagleton

The girls really respect Heidi and Shannon. I think it is great to see past players like them contribute and help out. They have a lot of good input.

Stephanie Aquila

We came to the point where we have differences of opinion we just can't get past, ... I just feel she's taking the town in the wrong direction.

Thomas Farmer

I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.

Prince Harry

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

Norbert Wiener

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Hannes Smarason

In the past people only had the chance to license their content to networks. Now that's not the case.

Jeremy Allaire

In the present, there is only the here and now.For the past is gone and the future has yet to arrive.

Gabriella Goddard

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

Liam Gallagher

Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.

Jim Letten

The whole team's been getting the ball to her. I think it's a whole team thing the past two games, not just a Hannah Harvey thing.

Stephanie Johnson

Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time.

Mark Richardson

The mining companies have been very frugal with their capital in this boom unlike the past.

Frank Villante

Presently, we basically depend on archived historical data to make inferences about change over a long time ... You're hostage to the limited amount of data available in the past.

Thomas Rossby

I have not a clue whether it will be more successful in 2006 than we have been in the past. But we've got to try every possible approach that we can. The conditions are too well documented and too stark.

Andrew Rudnick

For the past several months, this office has been reviewing certain alleged improprieties regarding Tyco International.

Mark Connolly

I love Gerhard, ... We've talked to one another over the past 32 years. He's never expressed anything of the kind to me over that period of time.

Bob Kerrey

We're going to have a small lineup, but hopefully our experience over the past two years will pay off and we'll click. Austin will be our biggest guy and he's played post before so he should be fine down there.

Kelly Winter

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

We've stopped our programs. We will not feed anyone past the end of December.

Richard Ragan

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.

Lucy Larcom

It's a local focus on celebrating the talents of our community, a way to view our past, whether it's history or sports or food, and exhibit the community's vision for the future.

Irene Koehler

She went to church every day. A neighbor picked her up every morning. But when he drove past that morning, he noticed the victim was not at the curb. He knocked on the door, but (got) no response.

Steve Ward

This team is a great team, and a team that knows how to win. Our coaches put us in position to win week in and week out. And we play to win, instead of not to lose, because that's our mentality. And why not? We've won in the past and that's what we believe we're going to do.

David Givens

For the last 15 years, we've worked with the Chamber of Commerce. We're not doing anything different than in the past; we've just formalized it.

Wes Savage

Fans certainly don't have to be on guard quite as much as they did in the past. Some fans are more observant that others, but this takes care of all those concerned in the stadium.

Gary Overton

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.

Charles R. Swindoll

The impacts of this past winter have been cumulative.

Linda Dougherty

We understand that change happens, but to just disregard the past is something we all want to make sure doesn't happen.

Bob Sleppy

I thank family, friends and Dad's former colleagues in this past difficult year.

Kristin Dierking

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

Nicola Roberts

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Sam Ervin

It will be fun to be back in Milwaukee. But the first game is kind of your revenge. Getting the win now allows you be free of ghosts of the past.

George Karl

It's part of the past that we have between us now. We can't get away from that piece of it. So what we're hopeful of doing is perhaps using this first anniversary of it as a point from which to move forward.

Joseph Prueher

Each club knows what the hot buttons are in their market, ... aren't realistic when some clubs have suffered more than others under the past CBA.

Bernadette Mansur

For years AT&T was a very predictable company... a company that prided ourselves on the past -- and in many cases let the past be prologue.

Burke Stinson

WMF exploitation has taken off in the past twelve hours. It's likely that WMF exploitation will be very successful in the near term.

Ken Dunham

In the past we've had people there, but we didn't advertise it.

Carley Cummins

If you have any track record of running a bank or past success, you can do it.

Jim Gardner

Lindstrom's time (17:03) on the challenging 3.1-mile course was the best individual Anacortes time and placement in the past several years. He earned a medal as a top-20 finisher.

Gary Horrell

We're done with that (stuff). We're going to learn from the past and move on. I'm concerned about today and tomorrow and what's best for the Hawks, not me.

Dale Tallon

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Vladimir Horowitz

Over the past two summers, I have had a chance to really improve against great competition. I met a lot of great people there and will take a lot away from the whole experience.

Jay Buente

He's gotten past a couple hills, but he's not around the corner yet.

Chuck Barta

We're obviously focusing on the mail because that has been the cause of other anthrax scares in the past.

John Rowland

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Wendell Berry

It's been a lot of hard work leading up to here. We have been working on this particular transaction for the past five or six weeks.

David Skok

If anything, it is a good time to be in the market based on past history.

Michael Panzner

Over the past five months, I have worked closely with Travis and my colleagues in ensuring a smooth leadership transition.

Dick Evans

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tom gives us quality depth at the goaltender position. We have liked what we have seen from him the past two seasons.

Craig Billington

I'd say for him to average the 30 points he did in college this past season is an attainable goal for him.

Joe Becerra

For the past five or six years, the people in Cap and Skull decided to be anonymous.

Alex Maghoub

It is past time for the state to act to get these weapons off the streets, and Illinois should set an example for Indiana to follow.

Jennifer Bishop

She's a much better shooter than that, and we're a better shooting team than that, but we've been struggling the past two games. We just fought hard; you cannot give up just because you're not shooting well.

Clay Cockett

One of (the) things we struggled with in the past is getting down on ourselves and letting one game affect the next.

Blake Powers

We threw everything at them, but they're a dominant team and they can come right out of the ashes just like they have in the past.

Darrell Brooks

In the past we found these fairs very successful for us. We've recruited very good candidates that have enjoyed coming over and we really enjoy being here.

Laura Lee

What happened in the past seven days may not be a reflection of what will happen over the next seven days. Housing is the most critical factor right now. Everything is getting better every week.

Gene Romano

I'm totally proud of what we've accomplished. The kids were so courageous over the past five weeks. They weren't going to give up.

Jimmy Littleton

It was a foregone conclusion that he would break the record, it was just a matter of when and now it's past and we can focus on the rest of the season.

Steve Bell

To design something like this is unbelievable - you've got to love it. It's our history, it's our past. I'm glad someone had the sense to preserve this.

Dick Anderson

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

We're much more coordinated and centralized than we have been in the past.

Bill Turner

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Jean Piaget

Our parliamentary commission will meet in an open session Wednesday to summarize the work of the past 16 months.

Sergei Mironov

We've got the people we need to win the conference again. Each player knows his role. We've got confidence in each other and we pick each other up. That's something we haven't always had in the past.

Tyler Jones

Don't hold onto the past, the future holds more promise.

Josh Holman

Over the past six months, the core PPI is up at about a 0.5 per cent annual rate. There is no indication that higher energy prices have led to broad inflationary pressures.

Dick Green

One of my goals, from what everyone keeps telling me about the past, is that we want to be back in the center of town - to be the show in town.

Gary Kellough

The camp will be a bit smaller than in the past.

Craig Behan

We had a lot of hits, but we just couldn't get them at the right moments. As soon as we can get past the past I think we (the offense) will be able to move forward.

Amy Pikas

I highly respect all of the past contestants, and I've learned so much from [watching] them.

Kellie Pickler

It's a boost for the market and it gives people impetus to get back into some of the names they may have wanted to buy but have not done so during the past few weeks.

Akber Khan

Everything we pour into the shuttle is an investment in the past.

Louis Friedman

Such strikes are never good for the economy. But in the past strikes haven't halted an economic upswing because in general they are too short to create lasting damage.

Joerg Kraemer

The competition was Coke vs. Pepsi 10 years ago. Our business has evolved over the past 10 years, and with that evolution, we have entered into new categories.

Alison Lewis

[There's] lots of old code hanging around Windows. Mr. Gibson is being spooked by ghosts of the past.

Richard Stiennon

I hit the ball pretty well all weekend. It's a great feeling obviously to win this. It's nice to know I can compete against some of the past winners and show that I belong.

Penny Carlo

I feel that Lafayette has had a great mental depression the last couple of months due to the hurricane. We cannot change the past ... so we have to look to the future.

Rob Stevenson

We've done home visits on Halloween nights in the past, but this is the first year that we've asked sex offenders on probation to come in to our offices.

Victoria Hochman

In the past I've been a little nervous. This year I had a calm feeling. Truly I think God gave me the confidence. I just put my trust in God completely.

Danielle Lee

It is a good sign because the central government has not seized the opportunity to attack us, which it would have done in the past. So there's room for future dialogue.

Albert Ho

We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals.

Jan Stirling

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

It's a tradition and the books from past years are so good.

Laura Baker

I've already lost two slots from past cuts. We can't afford to lay anyone off and be efficient. We have nowhere left to cut.

Cheyenne Albro

We can't comment about an ongoing investigation. That wasn't on past public record at this point. I have no comment about that. We allege that he broke a number of conditions.

Brendan Conway

When we look at data over the past 20 years, we get a size distribution of sharks.

Greg Skomal

We have been below in the past. We're heading in the right direction.

Heather Fiorentino

(Mikolas) has been doing that all year long. Someone needs to step up and offer that kid a scholarship. All he's done over the past two years is win.

Doug Ferguson

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

The chances today are better than they were in the past. I still think there are some barriers we would have to overcome.

Alvin Smith

There's a sensitivity to doing things better than maybe we've done in the past. So we're going to delay a bit from time to time until we get our sea legs.

Councilman Clem Lee

We've accumulated more than 40 awards for F-150 over the past two years. We simply know truck customers better than anyone else.

Doug Scott

The marketing will include some pretty important things we haven't been able to do in the past.

Jeff Weir

That's been a problem for us the past four games. They killed us on the glass. Most of their scoring came from them going to the glass, while our guys weren't.

Frank Ostanik

In the past, it would've been much more important, but as the roster of customers becomes more and more international, what happens here becomes comparatively less important.

Jb Groh

I think government feels confident about the BEE processes that have been rolling over for the past few years.

Sello Moloko

He was on drugs. He did the drinking thing. He used to party a lot. That's in his past now.

Pokey Reese

The price difference is not as significant as it was in the past.

Duke Ah Moo

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Gerald Jampolsky

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Charles Erwin Wilson

They've demonstrated the ability to integrate properties and aggressively de- leverage in the past, so I'm not too concerned with their ability to execute.

Jim Walden

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

Gary Ryan Blair

If they were pictures of the Yankees of the past 50 years, I'd do just as well.

Larry David

The Republicans behind this recall say they want you to oust me for past mistakes. My friends, they don't give a rip about past mistakes. This is all about control in the future.

Gray Davis

Lego has done some intelligent things with licensing in the past year. But they're just catching up.

Hayley Kissel

In the past two years this has become more than just anecdotal.

Ron Phipps

DNA is not like videotape. DNA doesn't show you what happened in the past. At most, DNA can show someone is connected to a crime scene and that's as far as DNA can go. . . . The DNA doesn't prove anyone killed anyone.

Robert Andrews

They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust.

Madeline Albright

Hosting the world championships at Rod Laver Arena last year also provided a boost to our gymnasts as they demonstrated the huge advances they have made over the past four years.

Perry Crosswhite

The inventory of unsold homes has been building in the past four or five months - which is not surprising, as affordability has gotten stretched and stretched, and creative financing has grown more absurd.

Doug Kass

Over the past few years we have made solid progress in the execution of our strategy.

Bruce Claflin

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise.

Red Constantino

We may need some new impetus to get past the highs we've hit this year.

Donald Selkin

The governor and the speaker have a good relationship, and the governor has been supportive of our efforts in the past.

John Mcgovern

It's not a disease. It's not contagious. They should understand that it's a story of pure love. They don't have to be a hero. They don't have to be brave like us. I guess a little bit of maturity is being asked for because society has been immature in the past. That's about it.

Heath Ledger

Oden is unbelievable. I can't think of anyone like him in the past 15 years. He's so athletic, and he's a winner.

Pete Gillen

We declared it an emergency, because we can't pay it back by the end of the year. So we have six months past the beginning of the year to pay it back. We'll pay it back by March, probably, but we do have until June.

Gary Meyer

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

George Thompson

Carpets offer a continuity between now and the past.

Brian Murphy

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

I think younger people should never forget the past.

Lou Marino

I think it is common practice. This is something that other countries have done in the past. The US put such a levy in place in 1972.

Wang Guoliang

This is just another example of similar news we've seen in these past days, meant to manipulate and impose pressure on the (Serbian) government.

Srdjan Djuric

We knew this was happening 15 years ago. But it's only been in the past few months that the information has been spread by the media.

Will Steger

I think it's imperative that we participate in the process. We have a vested interest in helping it be orderly. If we don't participate, we'll be left out as we have in the past.

Bob Hadfield

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.

Jim Bishop

2005 was my best year ever. Although for the past few years I've been able to say that every year.

Barry Baker

I didn't ever see past the beginnings, ... All I saw was the good times. But now because of the Good Shepherd Mission I have tools in my life to help me get past that.

Robert Cooper

We've already seen a lot of IT hiring activity in the past two quarters of 2005.

Jeff Markham

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

It was exciting, even though I didn't make it past the preliminaries. It's a little disappointing; I thought I could've done better.

Chris Weber

Usually it's just a concert, but we've had extensive celebrations recently. Four to five restaurants have donated in the past, and we've been able to sample the food and have contests, too.

Patricia Lewis

All of those things are costing money. That's the reason they haven't passed in the past, because they have a dollar sign in front of it.

Michelle Stanley

Football's performance over the past 12 months suggests it can fulfil its potential in Australia in the years ahead.

David Malone

We're excited. We've been having some bad bounces go our way ... the past few games and just wanted to continue working hard.

Jeff Corey

If we continue down the same path as we have in the past, people may become tired of gaming.

Satoru Iwata

I think the Fed will keep in 'measured pace.' There is no need for a major shift in the statement because economic conditions are similar to what they've been during the past couple of meetings.

Vincent Boberski

When you walked in that house, you saw nothing of that past life.

Mike Wooldridge

All the sudden you have people where in the past there weren't people there. People cause emergencies.

Kevin Klein

Over the past two months, we have lost some confidence in the company's ability to generate the growth necessary to meet our estimates.

Tom Courtney

It's our job to look past these events and buy the future.

Jon Thorn

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Linda Chandler