Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.    From LearnThat.org.  [Percy Shelley (1792-1822), English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics and religion.]

Reporters dug into the candidate's past.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Forget the past.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

past participle.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Every hour a train goes past.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Time past.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

\'Who controls the past, \ 'ran the Party slogan, \'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past\'. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Welcome to Orwell's world by John Pilger] Reference

I'm not for cloning anything, the past is the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cloning Neanderthals] Reference

Funding for the future, not the past is the ticket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Historic Mercury Mission Control Center - NASA Watch] Reference

Just as the past is a foreign country, so is the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why David Miliband felt he could not stay on at the frontbench] Reference

Today, he apologized for what he called his past actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007] Reference

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference

Well, I think that thinking about the past is always useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Charles Frazier, about Cold Mountain] Reference

This idea of preserving the past is a very new onelin Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heritage Preservation and the Energy Crisis] Reference

Partly because some of our "past" is so recent, as in #5 above.    From Wordnik.com.  ["They All Seem So Nice...."] Reference

One example from my past is the Draconian Rockefeller Drug laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

For these Hindus, the past is alive, as if it happened yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [India’s New Face] Reference

| Reply the past is a gaping hole, yawning at your heels. mercator.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - hehe…don’t go to this guy for your teeth.] Reference

Preserving the past is the responsibility of the current generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine] Reference

Transitional evolution in the past is a historical and natural event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science: It’s more complicated than creationists think « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

So if the past is a guide to the future, how will identity deconstruct?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripting News for 8/3/07 « Scripting News Annex] Reference

The eternal present embraces what we call the past, present, and future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

Saying that the past is the past only works if you are upfront about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Top ten signs that Sen. Allen’s mother is Jewish.] Reference

Sarcastro says: liamascorcaigh: They say that the past is another country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic] Reference

“Preserving the past is the responsibility of the current generation.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine] Reference

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gustav Stresemann - Nobel Lecture] Reference

To not know this about the past is an obstacle to the development of the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project] Reference

If the past is any indicator, their current strategy will only perpetuate the cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Word: Obama and Israel - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

However, if the past is any indication, their persistance will eventually bear fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decline of the Polymath?] Reference

We shouldn't penalize Marvel for inspiring creators to stay on a title past one saga.    From Wordnik.com.  [My personal top ten best/favorite runs list, plus far too much analysis of the Top 100 List! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

As Keynes once wrote, the past is history, the future a mystery, but today is a gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maybe It Was Dana Plato?] Reference

I only wanted to speak of my own abilities yet also recognize that the past is the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solo won't play or attend final U.S. World Cup match] Reference

The manipulation of memory and reconstruction of the past is a major theme of Casa Rossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano: Questions] Reference

That the Vatican may have lent financial and moral support to AI in the past is admirable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Window into Amnesty International’s Worldview] Reference

Javanfekr also reminded the US of what he called past mistakes, including the war in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Changing the past is a crucial revolutionary desire for which Benjamin is a very good keynote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Is Reading] Reference

I think his past is the most likely jumping off point for another movie (prequel in this case).    From Wordnik.com.  [SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1079] Reference

I fell into what we call the past and the things I counted as dead for ever were the things I had yet to endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference

I know I fell into what we call the past and the things I counted as dead for ever were the things I had yet to endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginations and Reveries] Reference

If the past is any guide, there will be a collective push among the Democratic legislators to spend even more of the surplus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Good PR...for now.] Reference