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Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
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Harold Robbins Haldeman

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Past
Leslie P. Hartley

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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
History and Historians
Robert Heinlein

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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
The future
Patrick Henry

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Death and Dying
Sydney Hook

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An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Experts
Tom Hopkins

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Happiness
Doug Horton

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When the danger is past God is cheated.
Danger
Italian Proverb

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Dreams
Thomas Jefferson

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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
Repetition
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
Effort
John F. Kennedy

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Pleasure
Soren Kierkegaard

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children
Jean De La Bruyere

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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
Past
John La Farge

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No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
Status
Latin Proverb

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Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Regret
The Lion

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Shame
John Lyly

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promises
Niccolo Machiavelli

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Past
Marcus Valerius Martial

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Curiosity
Mary Mccarthy

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Failure
Dan Mckinnon

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Tradition
Lewis Mumford

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The future
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
Mothers
Gregory Nunn

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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Past
George Orwell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun