We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Our position is we want to cooperate with the Saints and the state in an effort to keep the Saints i... BERNARD BOUDREAUX We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment d... CHANAKYA It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown. RAE CARSON We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO When we enter in the future, students will know that we have the talent and quality to enter such as... BO SHIRAH We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and... ATIFETE JAHJAGA Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, whi... ILCHI LEE The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future or ... GAUTAMA BUDDHA That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us l... BARTLETT SHER A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains ru... PAMELA MEYER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or... BUDDHA The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or... BUDDHA In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit ... CHARLES KENNEDY In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable ... RUDOLF STEINER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON We talked about the future of Kosovo, and we agreed that the people of Kosovo should decide their fu... HASHIM THACI Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to ... JAMES BURKE Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to ... JAMES BURKE Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future.... BLAISE PASCAL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There are questions we should be asking now, about all those possible scenarios, ROB BISHOP We believe in the good old days; we believe our best is in the past. Our past is our memories, our p... TONY CURL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel ... DEREK CIANFRANCE We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy... MAURICE MAETERLINCK Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the... BERTRAND RUSSELL We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The... KILROY J. OLDSTER I believe decisions should be made in daylight, explanations for them should be given, consultations... HUGH MILLER I believe decisions should be made in daylight, explanations for them should be given, consultations... HUGH MILLER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai... VAN JONES The past wrote about the future not acknowledging the past writing about the future. Will we ever le... ANGELA DILLON One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subj... MICHAEL GOVE One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not... BROTHER LAWRENCE A handicap is not about how we walk, talk, act, dress or do things. It's about things that keep us f... JEFF STEINBERG The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one... CULLEN BUNN Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with ... TERRY TEACHOUT Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without t... H.E. DAVEY For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the... MICHAEL DIRDA I'm confident that our government is not doing all it should do. We thought about what we could have... GENE RICCIO Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can le... DAVID STRATHAIRN when wrong choices creat our past and destroy our present, we should remember we still own the futur... IIGMIIR The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the fut... BUKKYO DENDO KYOKAI The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they ... CARL SAGAN When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves fr... GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We should do a good enforcement bill and leave the administration to execute it, then in the meantim... JEFF SESSIONS For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or th... GEORGE ORWELL we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We should have an open mind about the kind of levers that we apply and not be afraid to think the un... ELLIOT MORLEY We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for t... POPE JOHN PAUL II It's what's causing the funding problem we're having in the budget. We should keep that in mind as w... ALAN ESSIG If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav... THOMAS JEFFERSON We were encouraged by a comment that when the details of the rights are outlined to us, both South A... BILL SANDERS A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slav... ROBERT CRAIS What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr... JEFFREY FRY In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious ... ELLEN G. WHITE that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we... NAFISA HAJI We think the game is just beginning and we are confident about the future. DAN ROSENSWEIG Most of the Time we all say (including me) that i don't want to stay with past but the thing is we k... FAHIM MAHMOOD MIR At a point in history when we need the nation to trust us, we've given them reasons to step back and... NEW YORK GIANTS The question is, 'what do we do?' as there is a view which says that anything artistic should not be... EARL SMITH We are very confident in Patrick's ability to step in and lead our job creation and retention effort... BRYAN DERREBERRY It's not worth worrying about. It wasn't pleasant, but both Martin and I are past it. We plan to hav... LLOYD GROVE What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You know why past and future are more attractive to the mind and not the present? There is no edit b... SANDEEP GOSWAMY We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administratio... ANTHONY WEINER He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right. LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right. JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political poi... MICHELLE PHAN I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sin... THERESE DOUCET What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this mome... ABHIJIT NASKAR We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives ther... CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there... CHARLES F. KETTERING Northern runs a similar offense to what we ran in high school. I am really looking forward to it and... MARSHALL FLANNERY It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disas... NILS-AXEL MORNER As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological ... ZAHI HAWASS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or ev... NIKKI ROWE We both read the stories through last summer. There was way too much for one ballet, so we compared ... GERARD CHARLES From a marketing point of view, we have moved ahead of the competition over the past couple of years... LARS FREDERIKSEN We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now. GERHARD SCHROEDER We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Some have argued we should wait, and that's an option. In my view, it's the riskiest of all options,... GEORGE W. BUSH We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t... BLAISE PASCAL
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ELMORE LEONARD I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations a... LEONARD ORR Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. HUGH LEONARD I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin... HUGH LEONARD The FBI has always supported big business and big government. LEONARD PELTIER I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized ... LEONARD LAUDER I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time. LEONARD NIMOY This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t... LEONARD BERNSTEIN The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, a... LEONARD SUSSKIND I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. ... BUCK LEONARD A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. LEONARD RAVENHILL I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if y... LEONARD COHEN I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish... LEONARD COHEN I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, b... LEONARD COHEN I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism. LEONARD LAUDER For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urg... LEONARD BOSWELL I think I definitely have to improve my 3-point shot and my defense. There's probably a lot of thing... BRITTANY LEONARD My dad is probably the biggest reason why I'm going there. He got to coach Tiffany and my brother (T... BRITTANY LEONARD I wanted to go to a junior college for two years so that I'd have a better chance to go to a bigger ... BRITTANY LEONARD The third quarter is our quarter. Our main focus is to come out strong. BRITTANY LEONARD I know everybody is yelling and wanting me to miss, but I always try to go up to the line confident ... BRITTANY LEONARD Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played w... JOHN LEONARD In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c... LEONARD BERNSTEIN The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals. LEONARD BOSWELL My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. HUGH LEONARD