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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

Past

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Theodor Adorno

Catastrophes

Past

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Felix Adler

Action

Past

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Naima Adedapo

People

Past

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

George Ade

Nothing

Past

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Adcock

Past

Trying

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.