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“When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.”

Thinking Past Remember Process Forget Fool Reverse Sage

Author:George Boas

“Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.”

Thinking Whole Together Jobs Past Opportunity Pleasure Opinion Careers Regret Fool Anxiety Add Financial Uncertainty Panic Public Opinion Reminding Past Regrets

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.”

Past Speak Wise Stupid Fool

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.”

Source: A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two

“Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.”

Past Fool These Days Significance Ownership Volume Exes Collectors

Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Any damn fool can predict the past.”

Book:Niven's Laws

Source: Niven's Laws

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”

Lasts Past Wish Enjoy Hours Teach Masters Fool Approach Skillful

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.”

Ifs Past Actors Fool Theater Screens

Author:Gloria Swanson