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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? -- Brian Tracy
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. -- Pliny the Elder
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. -- David P. Thelen
Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades -- Marc Lamont Hill
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. -- Marcus Aurelius
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. -- Thomas Sowell
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. -- Paul Merton
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling -- Robert Fulghum
Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him. -- Tammara Webber
Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. -- Anita Roddick
The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself. -- Ken Ham
And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership. -- Steve Case
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. -- Todd Tiahrt
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery. -- David Mermin
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood. -- Sandra Scarr
Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food. -- Jamie Oliver
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself. -- Marcia Angell
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. -- Thomas Sowell
Get bored with your past, it's over! -- Caroline Myss
The past is just something that's over. -- Christopher Isherwood
I think we agree, the past is over. -- George W. Bush
The past isn't over. It isn't even past. -- William Faulkner
Regrets over the past should chasten the future. -- James Ellis
The past has no power over the present moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes. -- John Bercow
Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role. -- Dennis Ritchie
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures. -- Henry Petroski
I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it. -- Joe Jonas
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now~? -- Brian Tracy
Jews are living in the past and they can't get over it. -- Jackie Mason
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future. -- Ray Kurzweil
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. -- Bobby Scott
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I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything. -- Gil Gerard
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems. -- Art Garfunkel
The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. -- Annie Dillard
I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me. -- Joe Wright
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can't let the past ruin your future, I changed over in my mind. -- Maria V. Snyder
Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country. -- Hun Sen
I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past -- Christopher Paolini
Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years -- Billie Piper
Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion. -- Robin Li
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. -- Daniel Levitin
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years. -- John Pople
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century, -- Herbie Hancock
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. -- Gautama Buddha
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past. -- Byron Katie
Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years. -- Richie Hawtin
Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you. -- Robert Tew
When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left? -- George Carlin
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. -- Adam McKay
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. -- Marcus Aurelius
I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go. -- Gillian Jacobs
This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples. -- Reks
Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet. -- Bill Gurley
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. -- John Darnielle
Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. -- Ryan Phillippe
The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience. -- Louise Hay
You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday. -- Deepak Chopra
The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. -- John McGraw
Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. -- Armand Hammer
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I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. -- Martin Feldstein
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past -- Henry David Thoreau
The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future. -- Louise Hay
People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future. -- Anthony Liccione
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. -- Ann Landers
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. -- David Klass
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. -- Mason Cooley
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present -- Jean Paul
The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs. -- Jill Robinson
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power. -- Oprah Winfrey
Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past? -- Sylvia Plath
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. -- John Calvin
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Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside? -- Sean Covey
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? -- Leon Kass
Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades. -- William Anthony Donohue
Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years. -- Martin Durkin
I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward. -- Ted Danson
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so. -- Ben Bernanke
Past is over, please don't open the door for it again. It will kidnap the present from under your nose -- Akanksha
We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it. -- Sterling K. Brown
The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget. -- Herbert Newton Casson
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. -- William DeWitt Hyde
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. -- Tom Perrotta
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. -- Ralph Neas
Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. -- Andrew von Eschenbach
One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis. -- Tony Blair
Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em -- Fabolous
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. -- Ralph Neas
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. -- David Mermin
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. -- Douglas Brinkley
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter. -- Gaylord Perry
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. -- Winston Churchill
...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. -- Nora Roberts
Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record. -- Scott Hutchison
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. -- Benjamin Graham
Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future. -- Richelle Mead
Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world. -- Zinedine Zidane
And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future? -- Candace Bushnell
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew. -- Mika
Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way. -- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way. -- Isaac Marion
We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels. -- Wayne Dyer
Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom. -- Ernest Cline
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. -- Richard Ford
Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years. -- Willie Soon

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