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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Past

Self

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Paul Goodman

Men

Past

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

Sharon Gless

Age

Past

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Newt Gingrich

Past

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Paul Gillmor

Forget

Past

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Gildersleeve