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“Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.”

Past Spirit Asks Forget Forget The Past

Author:Felicia Hemans

“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”

Ifs Knows Giving Body Past Science Asks Ability Knowledge Tools Accounts Originals Cumulative

Author:C.P. Snow

“As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.”

Past Asks Conflict Goodness Mercy Revenge Tragic Rejects Patriotic Rejected Casualties Amnesty

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Long Book Past Asks Given Answers Written Periods Ask Me This Day Given Up

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.”

People Would Be Able Past Asks Rich Forgiving Civilized Fulfilling Forgive Me

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.”

Years Believe Looks Persons Said Different Facts Home Christian Past Asks I Believe Tradition Court Eight Outlook Concealed Imprisonment Anti Semitic Lutherans

Author:Martin Niemoller

“People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.”

People World Past Asks Easy Born Information Lessons Waste Meaning Of Life Predecessors Knowledge And Information Brief Life

Author:Erik Naggum

“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'”

Mind Whole Past Asks Trouble Difficulty Regard Endurance Unbearable

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“I've not had to ask permission from Geraldine to take the job. I'm one of the few men in this life who are not under the thumb. I'm stronger than that. Did she want me out of the house? Listen, she's wanted me out of the house for the past 27 years and has often asked me not to come back again. But I always show up, and really, she can't do without me, because I'm brilliant.”

Men Want Years Shows Wanted Jobs Past Asks House Football Stronger Brilliant Managers This Life Soccer Want Me Permission Thumbs Chairman Back Again He Wants Me

Author:Martin O'Neill

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.”

Has Beens Seems Today Past Asks Goal Too Much Earning Earning A Living

Book:Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

Source: Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.”

People Looks Past Beautiful Values Asks House Laughing Rich Car Style Garden Abandon Rich People

Author:Nhat Hanh