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“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

“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

“If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.”

Ifs Want Helping Christian Past Memories Clear Safe Areas Tradition Past Memories

Author:Pope Francis

“Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.”

People Helping Past Fields Negative Overcoming Trauma Drs Helping People Pioneers Past Experiences

Author:Daniel Amen

“To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.”

Helping Past Behinds Darkness Draws Comedian My Past

Author:Matthew Perry

“With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?”

People Helping Together Past Social Community Imagine Built Ties Interaction Familiarity Faded Fingertips Social Interaction

Author:Dean Ornish

“A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.”

People Thinking Long Hard Helping Seems Wanted Past Deals Careers Adversity Rosy Long Careers

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.”

“Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow”

May Helping Past Grows Forget Our Past Your Past

Author:James M. Barrie

“Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.”

Knows Made Helping Past Fall Language Know How Wonderful Masters Conventions

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”

Helping Past Tomorrow Weather Our Past Your Past

Author:William Osler

“I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.”

People Believe I Can Important Helping Past Young Can Do Important Things

Author:John C. Stennis

“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.”

Trying I Can Facts Helping Would Be Past My Own Accepting Claims Foolish Contemporary Painter Phenomenon

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”

Giving Long Doe Done Helping Running Past Sin Answers Hell Objects Cost Difficulty Asking Forgiving Doctrine Offering Long Runs Forgiven Alas Miraculous Wipe Fresh Start Calvary Asking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.”

Years Helping Home Age Past Eternal Shelter Blast Stormy

Author:Isaac Watts

“I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.”

Thinking Way Believe Helping Dream Kids Past Can Do Walks Numbers Deserve Get Up Stumbling

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.”

Mind Hard Helping Past Produce Mines Poet Materials Expectations Tasks Bases Saved Anticipation Clue Generator

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.”

Giving Helping Past Trouble Advice Comfort Remedy

Author:Xenocrates

“One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.”

“That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.”

Mind Helping Eye Past Memories Behinds Alive Fronts Forgotten Conception Ignored Our Memories Reminding Liable Metaphorical

Author:Epeli Hau'ofa

“Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.”

Persons Helping Today Past Tomorrow Shapes Who You Are Our Past Your Past Erase Past Present Future Learn From The Past Financiers

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.”

Thinking Men World Helping Past Perfect Opinion Atheism Judging Type Personality Universal Intention Positive Atheism Supreme Attributes Perfect Man

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.”

Want Years Moments Helping Past Cutting Football League Pockets Apartment Grounded Reminders Defining Bucks My Past

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.”

Way Two Helping Use Past Growing Productions Historian Traffic Biographies Two Ways Past Present Biographers

Author:Claire Tomalin

“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”

“The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.”

Feels Helping Past Beautiful Language Sound Dark Direct Ghost Italian English Language Looming Unapologetic

Author:Chiara Barzini

“We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Helping Seems Government Past Courses Too Much Civilization Agree Debate Civilized Disagree Statesmen Good Faith Pettiness Agree To Disagree

Author:Daphne Guinness

“Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.”

Thinking Helping Past Novel Temptation

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Mind Art Helping Hands Past Civilization Thanks Companion

Author:Maria Montessori

“Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or later become petrified forms instead of living helps to mankind. Until that time comes, however, if religion of any name or nature makes man more happy, comfortable, and able to live peaceably with his brothers, it is good.”

Ifs Men Helping Able Past Form Names Grows Atheism Mankind Brother Comfortable Positive Atheism Sooner Or Later

Author:Luther Burbank