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No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

Norman Finkelstein

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Swami Sivananda

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

Cher

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Alex Trebek

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

James Altucher

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

Claire Tomalin

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

James McAvoy

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

Vanilla Ice

Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

Talia Shire

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

LL Cool J

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Aloe Blacc

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Bono

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

John Lewis