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Past Quotes
"Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do."
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"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team."
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"President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record."
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"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
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"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"
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"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
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"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."
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"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."
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"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
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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."
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"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
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"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks."
Past,
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"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."
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"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."
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"Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present."
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
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"Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly."
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"In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it."
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"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past."
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"The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years."
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"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
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"We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service."
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"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."
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"The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea."
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"Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California."
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