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Past Quotes
"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."
12
"As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe."
11
"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
11
"The mill cannot grind with the water that is past."
11
"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
11
"Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical."
Past,
11
"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."
Past,
11
"Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible."
Past,
11
"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen."
Past,
11
"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."
11
"The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea."
11
"Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on."
10
"Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present."
10
"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."
10
"I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training."
10
"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."
10
"That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it."
10
"I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past."
10
"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
10
"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
10
"I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past."
9
"Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from."
Past,
9
"I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past."
Past,
9
"I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present."
9
"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."
Past,
8
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
Past,
8
"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."
8
"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it."
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