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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."
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"Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified."
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"How do you know that past exist?"
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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."
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"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."
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"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss."
Music

"The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces."
Father

"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
Learning

"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others."
Family

"After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household."
Money

"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
Hope

"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
Life

"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
Experience

"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
Friendship

"During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity."
War
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