"The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences."

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John Berger

#Past Quotes #Wish Quotes #Prisoner Quotes

“There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.”
“I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.”

Source : "Sandy Adams, candidate for U.S. House district 24". Interview, dampfang.com. August 18, 2010.
“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”
“What I want is to be number one.”
“What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.”
“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”
“On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.”
“Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.”

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