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“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”

Life Inspirational Past Values Realizing Future Witty Preservation Dwelling Concentrating Forget The Past Value Of Life Zoologist

Author:Dian Fossey

“I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.”

Past Growth Records Tree Ocean Core Rings Ice Temperature Variation Over The Past Millennium Proxy

Author:Michael E. Mann

“The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.”

Stills America Past Values Program Determination Responsible Formulas Past Success

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Years Has Beens Past Ten Hundred Asking Management Indian Fifty

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.”

Age Past Courses Next Views India Focused Golden Alchemy Golden Age Learn From The Past

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.”

Country Past Given Media Ethics Presses Surprise Decades Code Code Of Ethics

Author:Roger Mudd

“The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.”

Ifs Way Past Remember Views Depends Very Good Our Future Your Future No Hope Hope For The Future Remembering The Past

Author:Story Musgrave

“I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.”

Past Fans Massive One Direction Clapping Too Cool

Author:Zayn Malik

“Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.”

People Way Long Has Beens Use Past Purpose Order Passion Emotion Modern Long Time Glory Purity Phenomenon Fundamentalism Oppressed Evoke Islamists

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.”

Humans Stories Past Democracy Rights Universal Human Rights Terrorism Determined Iran Fascism Fundamentalism Reminders Democracy And Human Rights

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.”

Past Environment Involved Get Involved Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Chris Noth

“I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.”

Past Young Growing Stage Months Adults Shoes Young Adult Manuals

Author:Graham Nelson

“The past is where its supposed to be.”

Past Supposed To Be

Author:Jason Newsted

“Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.”

Knows Two Stories Past Voice Lines Interesting Happenings Technique Driving Phantoms

Author:Jo Nesbo

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”

Years Has Beens Two Jobs Past Situation Millions Effects Taxes Rate Relief Two Years Soar Revenue Deficit Over The Past

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.”

Wells States Helping Past Spirit Community Fire Alive Response Generosity Fallen Rough Compassionate Proven Rough Times Eagerness Texan Community Spirit

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Process Pay Commitment Consequence Paid Prepared Interfere Writing Process Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.”

Earth Past Resources Territory Exploits

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.”

Thinking Stills Done Jobs Past Gone Havens Terrible Lucky Decided Worthy Load

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.”

Past Mines Jokes Complexes Royalty Dukes Past Life

Author:Frank Ocean

“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

Author:Jamie Oliver

“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.”

Thinking Mind Eye Past Mother Gone Spring Crosses Edges Lovely Fleeting Luminous Cardinals

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.”

Needs Giving Doe Past Order President Worry Security Concern Democratic Debt Tone National Security Joblessness Deaf Bin Laden Assassination Osama Bin Laden

Author:Ron Fournier

“There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.”

Want Writing Past Recent Past

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.”

Giving Writing States Past Order United United States Plans Tyranny Tyrants Frightening Imperialism Mutilation

Author:Edward Said

“The past isn't going to get you to your goal.”

Author:Junior Seau

“Learn your past, find your path.”

Past Education Path Our Past Your Past

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.”

God Past Plans Letting Go Messages Core

Author:Joel Osteen

“I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.”

Years Funny Past Realizing Couple Ego Thoughtful Links Manifest Over The Past Blogging Deep Relationship Relationship Over

Author:Jason Calacanis

“I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.”

People Years Done Lasts Past Politics Focus Judging Congress Judge Me

Author:Dan Quayle

“Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.”

Kids Past Games Fronts Tvs Computer Woods Electronics Computer Games

Author:Richard Louv

“We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.”

Kids Past Woods Illegal Electronics Boogeyman

Author:Richard Louv

“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”

People Feels Mean Past Faces Taken Wall Paid Destitute Nowhere To Go

Author:Alexander Lebed

“Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.”

Two Past Values Decades Ethical Over The Past Erosion Ethical Values Soil Erosion

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.”

Giving Long Home Past Fall Three Water Dark Laughing Emotional Scene Swimming Three Times Deep Emotional

Author:Brie Larson

“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”

Trying Firsts Real Jobs Past Stars Support Directors Producers Outlines Whatever It Takes

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”

May Self Matter Facts Helping Past Progress Materials Scientist Significant Devoted Evident Odds And Ends

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.”

Past Force Goal Challenges White Creative Pages Advantage Creative Work Past Success Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.”

Past Moving Moving Forward I've Learned

Author:Guy Oseary

“A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?”

Past Mother Psychics Palms Past Life

Author:Chynna Phillips

“It seems like people don't learn from the past.”

People Seems Past Learn From The Past

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.”

Men Long Past Highest Scientist Fellows Rewards Debt Prize Solemn Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Edward Mills Purcell

“I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.”

Thinking Knows Men May Self Past Color Tradition Distinction Assured Navy Turquoise

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”

People Thinking Past Order Strong Social Realizing Practice Support Economy Policy Changed Increase Majority Convinced Despite Greek Tension Pursued Prospects

Author:Lucas Papademos

“It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.”

Long Past Political Moral Healthy Solutions Aspect Tools Women's Health

Author:Martha Plimpton

“I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.”

Ifs Knows Years Said Ends Problem Past Evil Years Ago Paychecks Mtv

Author:Martha Plimpton

“The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.”

World Important Past Form Felt Memories Cases Cups France Championship Injured World Cup Great Memories

Author:Michel Patini

“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Knows Two Running Lasts Past Week Months Standards Speed Ran Olympics Championship Improving Over The Past Constantly Improving

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.”

Needs Trying Years Has Beens Country Bigs Government Lasts Past President Four Policy Tired Disappointment President Obama Four Years Big Government New Directions Government Policy

Author:Reince Priebus