what does the quote learn from the past but don't be paralyzed by it mean?
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Everyone makes mistakes.  Some people make the same mistakes over and over again, and some learn valuable life lessons from their errors so they become better people for it.  Some people let their past failures consume them and they won't take any chances in life for fear of making another mistake, others keep trying and don't continue to beat themselves up over past screw-ups.  BOTTOM LINE:  Take what you learn in life and apply it; and don't let fear of what might happen stop you from trying something new or taking a risk.
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I think it means things are going to get worse before they get better. I really like that quote. I do not know where it originated but it is inspiring.
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No. It means you are now expecting something which you wouldn't have been expecting but you still don't know what it is you are expecting, just that you expect something so you should expect something you might not expect but you can't know what to expect so it's still unexpeted, just that you are now aware that something you don't expect will happen.
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Knowledge is nothing if you don't put it to use.\nWillingness means nothing if you don't do something.
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Well this belief is rooted in the hope that tommorow will be much better than today as time goes on man likes to believe that he is learning from the past to make for a better future also the knowledge that will exist tomorrow will be much more comprehensive and thus shorten the margin of error. Unfortunantely this has not always been the case in current history.
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The expression is not, as widely believed, part of the Hippocratic oath, nor is it exactly a direct quote from Hippocrates. A more exact quote may be, "Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm." The idea is that a doctor should be sure that whatever he is doing for a patient doesn't make things worse. Sensible advice.
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This phrase has got many meanings... Depending on the place where you use it...\n\nGenerally it means, "hidden truths about something which is known"
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To learn from the past.
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This one is my personal favorite, "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." -Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk and poet \n\nIt reminds me not to get stuck in the every day frustrations and try something new, that just because it's comfortable doesn't mean it's healthy or the best thing for me.  :o)
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The past is already past.\nDon’t try to regain it.\nThe present does not stay.\nDon’t try to touch it.\n\nFrom moment to moment.\nThe future has not come;\nDon’t think about it\nBeforehand.\n\nWhatever comes to the eye,\nLeave it be.\nThere are no commandments\nTo be kept;\nThere’s no filth to be cleansed.\n\nWith empty mind really\nPenetrated, the dharmas\nHave no life.\n\nWhen you can be like this,\nYou’ve completed\nThe ultimate attainment.\nLayman P’ang (740-808)
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"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." ~Mark Twain\n\n"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little which one can be certain."  ~W. Somerset Maugham\n\n"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance."  ~Wil Durant\n\n"Courage means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."  ~ G. K. Chesterton
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It takes a strong person to truly forgive and forget when it is over something major.\n\nTo me, the phrase means that if I forgive and forget, I won't bring the "forgiven and forgotten" offense up in future arguments, I won't dwell over what can't be changed and I won't seek revenge or continue to mull over the experience.\n\nI may not truly "forget" what happened - but saying that means I am willing to move on and not waste any more precious time worrying about the offense.\n\nOf course, there have been things in my life that I haven't been wiling to "forgive and forget" but in those cases I have chosen to give up my relationship with that person rather than try to heal the friendship. Usually a relationship of some sort is at stake when forgiveness is involved and it is a matter of choosing between the offense and the relationship.
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It's a statement of encouragement.  He's saying that if something is in your way, you shouldn't let it get the best of you.  Obstacles exist to overcome them and find ways around them.  Obstacles give a person something to struggle over, and when they come out on the other side or break down those obstacles, that person is stronger for it.  If you surrender to an obstacle, you can't go any further.  To surrender to an obstacle is to give up on where you are going and to pass down an opportunity to struggle through a hard situation and better yourself.  Biblically speaking, God sometimes allows us to go through hardships because He knows it will make us stronger on the other side of the obstacle.  There are plenty examples of this with Job, King David, and all of the apostles to name a few.  Good luck with your essay!
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"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."\nby Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Twilight of the Idols (1899)
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."\n\nEverything we do today has been done in the past -- not in the same form, of course, but with the same patterns.  If you study history, you find these patterns all over the place, and the more you know of history, the better you will be at avoiding the pitfalls our ancestors fell into because they were doing it for the first time.\n\nOr perhaps they didn't have access to history books.  Though of course you must also remember that "history is written by the victors."
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Please let me apologise at least for my assumptions about this topic. Seriously. Those who think that feel that you have not lived it, therefore you can not understand it. But that is not always true. I apologise because I have been guilty of that mind set before. In their defense, ever heard of a young wise man? That's because the wise man has seen and experienced many, many things and has learned from that. See what I mean?
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It's a joke version of the classic saying, "never put off til tomorrow what you can do today." The original is about avoiding procrastination. The quote you provide is encouraging procrastination.