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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter

Time, Long, Lost

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford

Power, Future, Cannot

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman

Mistakes, Remember, America

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide

Different, Same, Leave

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
Heath Ledger

Good, Future, Live

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks

Moving, Self, Ego

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
Richard Gere

Karma, Strong, Someone

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason Cooley

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
Tom Hiddleston

Soul, Until, Body

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
Caroline Kennedy

Yourself, Feeling, Giving

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant

Beware, Snobbery, Failings

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
Karl Lagerfeld

Future, Today, Care

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

Beginning, Dawn, Twilight

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

Love, Loved, Image

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
Steve Martin

American, Truly, Instrument

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley

Future, Taste, Refers

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley

Book, Same, Reading

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston

Future, Present, Inside

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

Through, Simply, Subject

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Ethel Barrymore

Forget, Keep, Speak

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson

Future, Live, Living

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie

Find, Sometimes, Often

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Simone Weil

Greatest, Perhaps, Crimes

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger

Forget, Why, Songs

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beauty, Future, Wisdom

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
Paris Hilton

Losers, Parties, Weirdos

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
Tom Vilsack

Family, Today, Lost

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone

Great, Future, Fear

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Sylvester Stallone

Great, Future, Overrated

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