What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.
Zygmunt Bauman
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[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.] DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") Even when all is falling apart there is still hope in the world. Hope, a shining beacon that allows ... AVINA CELESTE You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the... RICHARD MARTIN STERN By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the ... JOSEPH CONRAD I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple... BELLA ANDRE the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the fut... JOSEPH CONRAD Your past is not as important as your future. Did you know that? Can't change anything about what yo... SIRI MITCHELL When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future... WILLIAM GIBSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equ... ROBERT WESLEY MILLER Don’t allow fear to make you afraid of future as what happened in the past. If you dwell & fear wh... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If England adopts a new faith, alien to what has been handed to us together, they will walk apart. S... PETER AKINOLA When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for th... SUNDAY ADELAJA May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. PAUL DICKSON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS This is the first time this group has played together as a unit and they did very well. It's what yo... GENE WATSON A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'"... DIANE DUANE I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Be... TOM HIDDLESTON A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dicta... DORIS LESSING Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back togeth... MARILYN MANSON My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY The front is green; the back of the front is butterscotch -- two colors glued together. MARIE SAEKI The workforce is probably as demoralized as any of us would be if our jobs were flailing, our pay wa... BRENT BOWEN Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. DEBASISH MRIDHA I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own total... BARNETT NEWMAN Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have alwa... CHARLES L. ALLEN Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have alwa... THICH NHAT HANH As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of... DEYTH BANGER Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all ho... ANTONIN ARTAUD I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirl... JODI PICOULT Don’t dwell in the past. You may miss the opportunity to enter the door of the future. DEBASISH MRIDHA The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ... EPICURUS Remember, the past need not become our future as well. BRANDON SANDERSON Live your life in present. You may take past as learning lesson & hope for the future but you can ma... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA PAST SUCCESS CANNOT BE A MEASURE OF FUTURE GROWTH ! DR.PRASAD RAJHANS While it's true that one cannot fix the world singularly, one should also not abandon one's core val... TROY J. GAINEY On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimi... KEVIN RUDD My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sens... DAVID DUCHOVNY As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, ... MARGARET ATWOOD I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ... EVA LONGORIA We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th... PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis... ADOLPH SAPHIR What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on thi... JEAN BAUDRILLARD We've had to abandon as there has been no significant improvement. JAMES ARMSTRONG As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always ... FRANCIS PARKER YOCKEY It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. SUZANNE COLLINS Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future MAXIM GORKY And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th... NEIL GAIMAN To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte... FREDERICK SODDY You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that rema... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do ... RICHARD MARTIN STERN The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together... VERA NAZARIAN Symantec cannot grow as rapidly as it has done in the past, RICHARD WILLIAMS You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results. IVAN LENDL As far as we can tell, the big poker rooms have continued to grow, but global ratings for poker tele... EUGENE CHRISTIANSEN Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. HELEN REDDY When you look at the totality of what Uzbekistan has been doing, they've been a very valuable partne... BRYAN WHITMAN The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers. MARY OLIVER Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty gre... DANIEL DAE KIM Polls only tell you want has happened in the past. They cannot accurately predict the future. JASON KLINDT Our research team has been working on methods and point-of-care devices that could allow saliva to b... CRAIG MILLER For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that charac... ALISON GOPNIK India has several world champions in cue sports who want it to be a part of the commonwealth games a... SURESH KALMADI The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know wha... MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together an... LARRY DOBY My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has ... EMIR KUSTURICA Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to... CESAR CHAVEZ I would never even entertain the thought of going back to Morton. It's as simple as that. I'm not di... ROWAN ALEXANDER There was no justice in the world—unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he... CONN IGGULDEN When people enter treatment, they are asked to identify the drug that has caused them to enter treat... BONNIE SUMMERS Birth is past, Death is future, Life is present. So enjoy and live life with totality. RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you do... SARAH DESSEN The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work c... THOMAS CARLYLE Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness... JüRGEN MOLTMANN Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future JOHN M. RICHARDSON, JR. I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be... JERRY SPINELLI I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on whi... TADAO ANDO We appreciate all the support we get from the community. We're thankful for all of the buyers as wel... CLAUDIA WILLIAMS Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the... TERRY PRATCHETT The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as... THOMAS HOBBES You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together. SARAH DESSEN Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ev... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart. CONN IGGULDEN Their frame of reference is disappearing. You know who you are based on your past. You use that to p... CHRISTOPHER CLARK Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Utopias of historical progress cannot sedu... EMIL BRUNNER Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citize... KEVIN RUDD If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative pr... BARON D'HOLBACH We doing our best to service both groups, ... Our staff has been great dealing with all of our clien... GWEN ROBINSON But I cannot accept a vision of You as an engineer who spends His days maintaining the machine of mo... DEXTER PALMER Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it. WALTER HOOPER If all goes well we would like to open up as soon as possible. It's been a long time coming. We just... KATHY MIDDLECAMP We're hoping to win league and get past the first round of the playoffs because we've never done tha... MATT HILTON
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