#the past

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ↗

— Buddha

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I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. ↗

— Yvonne Craig

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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past. ↗

— Mike Ditka

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But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. ↗

— Gianni Versace

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I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past. ↗

— Jim Walton

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Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. ↗

— Peter Welch

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