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“The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.”

People Heart Long America Past Nations History Taught Color Hero Lessons Racism Divides Villain Resentment Unspoken Lessons Of The Past

Book:Lessons in Living

Source: Lessons in Living

“Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.”

World Long Together Past Clothes Endure Buttons Fossils Garments

Book:The World According to Martha

Source: The World According to Martha

“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

“Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.”

Humans Long Doe Shows Action Earth Past Gone Eternal Shore Bark Acres Tombstone Reefs

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there.”

Long I Can Today Past Challenges Cry Blessing Yesterday Calamity

Book:The Gay Illiterate

Source: The Gay Illiterate

“the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.”

Long Past Happened Havens Long Time Flicker Times Past

Author:Estela Portillo Trambley

“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.”

Firsts Looks Long Has Beens Reality Past Speak Language Wish Photography First Time Impression Past Experiences

Author:Ernst Haas

“I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.”

Long Would Be Past Hours Half Mountain Bottom Incredibles Clouds Lifts Canada Chairs Skis Half Hours Skiing Vancouver Whistler

Author:Sebastian Bach

“In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.”

Ifs Long Ends Seems Past Individual Long Time Inexplicable

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I cant lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. Im so grateful to all my fans. I couldnt do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then its part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Shows Might Jobs Past Lying Talking Fans Grateful Being The Best Cant So Grateful

Author:Chuck Brown

“The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!”

Long Matter Moments Past Realizing Wonderful Negative Patterns Present Moment Wonderful Things

Book:You Can Heal Your Life Gift

Source: You Can Heal Your Life Gift

“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.”

Kind Persons Long Has Beens Stills Hard Play Together Past Night Song Interest Band Long Time Glory Trade Decades Bored Hats My Past Hats Off

Author:Paul Weller

“That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?”

Want Needs Years Long Two Reason Past Half Thousand Lists Soil Thousand Years

Book:A God in Every Stone

Source: A God in Every Stone

“As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.”

People Way Long Two Past Young Father Sports Parent President Proud Healthy Committed Active Fitness Teens Council Chairman Way To Live Physical Fitness Active Life Proud Father

Author:Lee Haney

“Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.”

Men Want Kind Long Past Artist Worry Violence Generations Politician Including All Kinds Preparation Tyrants Long Ago Future Generation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?”

Men Should Long War Past Remember Imagination Prime Love And War

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

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