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Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.
Chris Christie
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Golda Meir 
David Herbert Lawrence 
Wendell Willkie 
A. Whitney Brown 
Tony Visconti 
Newt Gingrich 
John Turturro 
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The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
Stockwell Day 
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
James Schuyler
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I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
Dan Quayle
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
Gene Tierney
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