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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. Thomas Szasz

Men Past Mental Witches Patients In The Past Create Created Now

When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors. Timothy Leary

Knowledge Personality Behavior Will Past Our Ancestors Systematic Possible Determine Determined More Advanced Study Implied Documents Historical Human Literary Views Expressed Expressive

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it. Tracy Chapman

You People Past Toothbrush Say Would Tried Broom Seems Something Almost Naive Like Hammer Sell Maybe Anything In The Past Convince Notion Now Actually Need

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past. Vanilla Ice

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Victor Hugo

Time Past Telescope See Past Time Microscope Apparent Hence Present Present Time

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett

History Game People Past Would Would-Be Past History Richest Richest People

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now. Wayne Dyer

Truth Future God You Truth Is Mind Past Totally Give Only Merge Come Know Because Always Up Your Now Here

In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real. Young Jeezy

You Heart Past Nothing Say Out Real Pull

Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. P. J. O'Rourke

Home School Past Our Summer Kids Some Having Throwback Supposedly Although Because Happens Agricultural Vacation

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. A. R. Ammons

You Man Past Other Recognised Tell Telling Poem Purpose Go Nor Any Where Burning Reason

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. A. R. Rahman

Death Family Religion Spiritual Change Mother Decision Father Stronger Past Changed Took Our Our Lives Following Through Instantaneous Like Healers Saint Years Patch Grew After Convert Converted Us Washing Rough Belief Away Lives Sufi

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. A. Whitney Brown

History Past Down Someone Only Wrote Happened Actually

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures. Aaron Eckhart

Relationship Women Sex Men Men And Women Past Few Differences Gone Futures Through Stuff Know How Years Past Few Years In The Past View Fundamental

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow. Aberjhani

Hope Rights Better Tomorrow Past Secure Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act Had Better Tomorrow Learned Passage America Precisely Act Acted

When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it. Abigail Washburn

Future God Time You Hurt Parents First Past Pain Record Record Deal Gut Miraculously Feel Like Know Fell Period Deal Nashville Go Child Banjo China Your Your Child Connect Started Playing

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. Abraham Cowley

Past Nothing Come Does Always Eternal Now Last

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want. Ad-Rock

Future You Chasing Past Lead Going Want After

Throughout the western world, new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that, find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same. Adam Curtis

Change World Job Past Aim Ways Systems Find Constantly Record Risen Recorded Throughout New Discover Western Up Western World Same Stopping Patterns Then Compare Whose Keeping Things Monitor Present Coincidences

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