Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

—Sir William Osler

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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

—Sir William Osler

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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

—Sir William Osler

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

—Sir William Osler

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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

—Sir William Osler

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

—Sir William Osler

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To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—The Teaching of Buddha

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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You

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