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John Jay Chapman

"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

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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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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

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"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."

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"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."

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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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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."

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"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

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A.E. Samaan

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

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"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."

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"People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it."
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"All progress is experimental."
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"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."
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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."
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"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."
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"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."
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"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."
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"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."
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"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."
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