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Births

• 1755 - Tench Coxe
• 1957 - Jeff Gannon
• 1942 - Theodore Kaczynski
• 1936 - M. Scott Peck
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• There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer’s market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

  Alison Sweeney

  Topics in Past, Work

  Tags in Food

• I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

  Beverly Sills

  Topics in Past

  Tags in People

• My biggest ‘don’t’ from the past? Picking my face!

  Bethenny Frankel

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Face

• I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Topics in Life, Past

  Tags in Doubt

• If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.

  Bernard Baruch

  Topics in History, Past

• The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Government

• Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t’will be virtue.

  Ben Jonson

  Topics in Past

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I’m not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  Beck

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Fun

• I don’t want to live on past records.

  Barry Gibb

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Live

• It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

  Rod Stewart

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Writing
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  Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.

  Unknown

  Topics in Mistake, Past

  Tags in Define, Guides
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  Never live in the past but always learn from it.

  Unknown

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Learn, Live

• My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Imitation

• I’m amazed by just constantly – there’s not a week that goes past where there’s not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, ‘Ooh, ‘Downton’ started this week.’ You completely forget it’s staggered across the world.

  Dan Stevens

  Topics in Past, Uncategorized

  Tags in Forget, Constantly, Amazed

• To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Past

• I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don’t want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

  Uri Geller

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Time

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

  Sophocles

  Topics in Past

• I’m not one to sit and wallow – I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don’t like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

   

  Sarah McLachlan

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Peace, Bad

• 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

  Topics in Fear, Past

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

  Sylvester Stallone

  Topics in Future, Past