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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
Future
Respect
Safety
Wish
Past
Must
Mistrust
Provide
Present
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
Time
Long
Lost
Past
Defends
Status
Status Quo
Bureaucracy
Quo
In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
Mark Parker
Future
Change
Speak
Important
Past
Difficult
We Cannot
Impact
Up
Times
Cannot
Difficult Times
I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.
Mary Daly
Future
Past
Think
About
Had
Get
Trying
Order
Deep
We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.
Meles Zenawi
Best
Reality
Poverty
Past
Own
Our
Worst
Calendar
Terms
Also
Greatness
Represent
Africa
African
Script
Present
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Time
Will
Responsibility
Islam
Glorious
Past
Duty
Every
Our
Ourselves
Muslim
Worthy
Shall
Soon
Come
Expect
Realise
Justify
'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.
Richard Corliss
Future
God
Bible
Man
Risks
Word
Past
Other
Earth
Those
Liberties
About
Obliterate
Take
Noah
Taking
Mission
Replacing
Godfather
Movie
Literally
Confusing
Who
Creator
Whose
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
Life
Love
Man
Peace
World
Past
Ambition
Live
State
Earthly
Ways
Those
Through
He
Instead
Material
His
Turmoil
Then
Created
Interests
Flow
People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.
Shawn Michaels
Forgiveness
You
People
Will
Face
Past
Gone
Universe
Degrade
Constantly
Brought
Shame
Throw
Never
Him
Up
Forever
Ask
Then
Creator
Bring
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics
Science
Women
Physics
Past
Gone
Active
Enough
Small
Particularly
Although
Effects
Account
Discrimination
In The Past
Against
Now
Residual
Numbers
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee
Future
Technology
Seen
Past
Web
Envisaged
Still
Than
Bigger
Much
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Heart
Book
Past
Only
Like
Him
Read
Known
Leaves
His
Friends
Title
Each
Shut
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
Wilfrid Laurier
Future
Past
Ancestors
Look
Also
Children
Them
Land
During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Rights
Strong
Black
Uncle
Past
White
Human Rights
Liberals
Civil
Eat
Civil Rights
Instead
Like
Were
Years
Aunt
Frightened
Human
Afraid
Children
Breasts
Meat
Sucked
Milk
Toms
I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.
La'Porsha Renae
Today
Me
Woman
I Am
Strong
Daughter
Past
Harsh
Strong Woman
Shape
Well
Proud
Am
Curves
Helped
Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.
Thomas P. O'Neill
Past
Think
Our
Potential
Forget
Unfulfilled
Frustrations
Us
Let Us
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
Amos Oz
Conflict
Past
Oppressor
Other
Arab
See
Case
Parent
Cruel
Between
Look
Another
Very
Same
Children
Victims
Much
Each
Image
Jew
Two
It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina Jolie
You
Past
Carrying
About
More
Clear
Baggage
Learned
Around
Go
Quickly
Bunch
Move
Place
Next
Hard
Who
Let Go
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
Anthony Kiedis
Past
Stuck
Foot
Am
In The Past
Personally
Present
I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.
Ben Schnetzer
Work
Grateful
People
Opportunities
Amazing
Past
Down
Think
Some
Point
Had
Put
Head
Feel
Over
Couple
Amazing People
Years
Past Couple
Just
Want
Grind
Really
Humbled
Honest
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
Bob Iger
You
Respect
Mistake
Innovation
Past
Way
Allow
Revere
Tradition
Get
Your
Need
Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
Bob Newhart
Time
You
Change
Past
Live
No Point
Point
Anything
In The Past
Waste
Waste Of Time
As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
Burgess Owens
Great
Courage
Will
Free
Sacrifice
National
Past
Nothing
Gave
Our
Corporate
Dream
Find
Come
Courageous
Am
Still
Anthem
National Anthem
American
Flag
Any
Shores
Cannot
Former
Meaning
Stand
Team
Who
Whose
Player
Millions
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino
Hope
Faith
Patience
Past
Spirit
Above
Rather
Bears
Simply
Blazing
Until
Passively
Yes
Storm
Serene
Suffers
Things
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Courteney Cox
Myself
Peace
Age
Looking
Past
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
See
Always
How
Am
Gotten
Doing
Just
Where
Anymore
Wanted
In The Past
Comparative
Comparing
Now
Competitive
My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.
Darryl Glenn
Life
Today
Political Campaign
Strength
Me
Knowledge
Political
Walk
Heroes
Will
My Life
Power
Single
Past
Tremendous
Defined
Those
Run
Driven
Drives
Come
Come And Go
Still
Go
Campaign
Office
In The Past
Elected
Us
Among
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