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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. -
Henri L Bergson
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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! -
Edwin C Bliss
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. -
Les Brown
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. -
Frederick Douglass
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. -
Maxim Gorky
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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. -
John Adams
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Study the past if you would divine the future. -
Confucius
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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. -
Joan Didion
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. -
Francis Herbert Hedge
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