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«Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.»
«Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.»
«These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.»
«It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.»
«Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.»
«Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.»
«Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.»
«There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.»
«I like men who have a future and women who have a past»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Future, Men, Past, witty, Women | Keywords: future, past, women
«There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.»

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