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"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past."

Fernando Flores, Chilean Politician
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"When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past."

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"You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living."
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"Hope is the raw material of losers."
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"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals."
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"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."
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"When trust improves, the mood improves."
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"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
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"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
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"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
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"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well."
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"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."
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"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author
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"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."

Joe Adcock, American Athlete
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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, American Politician
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"An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past."

Michael Aspel, British Journalist
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"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."

Walter Benjamin, German Critic
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"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."

Jane Byrne, American Politician
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"That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect."

Steve Carlton, American Athlete
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"One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist
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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet
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