"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."

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"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one."

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"What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?"

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"I'm really obsessed with the past."

Fisher Stevens, American Actor

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

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"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen."

Jacky Ickx, Belgian Celebrity

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

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."

Angus Young, Scottish Musician

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You cannot survive if you do not know the past."

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"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."

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"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."

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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."

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"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."

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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."

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"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."

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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."

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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."

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