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• Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. John Dyke
• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
  Jose Ortega y Gasse...
• We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools.
• We're judged by what we finish, not what we start.
• Don't waste tears on what might have bee
• Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
  -- Thomas A. Kempi...
• Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- lxxv, Stanza 4...
• Saying this, we say what's been handed down.
• A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
  We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about....