You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to inst

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. – Leopold Von Ranke

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Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future! – Gail Simmons

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I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is. – Tim Gunn

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If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people dont put time into it to make it run in a right way, I dont think your team will work. – Tim Hardaway

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because theyve been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that its come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? Its here. – Patty Hearst

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