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quotes by topic Past

" It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Past , Present , Memory

" The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. "

Action , Past

" You can never plan the future by the past. "

Future , Past

" We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. "

Praise , Censorship , Past , Present , Freedom

" The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. "

Past , Beginning , Dawn , Twilight

" The past is but the past of a beginning. "

Past , Beginning

" It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. "

History , Nature , Appearance , Mankind , Past

" 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. "

Ibrahim Babangida

World , Society , Past , Present

" Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. "

Ibrahim Babangida

Democracy , Past , Mistakes

" Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years. "

Isabelle Adjani

Work , Past

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