- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Past Quotes
Looking back to understand what comes next.
This collection of past quotes includes a mid-20th-century physicist's assessment of the atomic-age power balance between Europe and the Anglo-Saxon powers, alongside a separate scientific note on how measurement affects what can be known about earlier moments. Both sit alongside a simpler idea: building your future apart from your past. Related themes appear in our Truth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
- Animating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men I've played are all respectful and gentlemen towards me. I've never really had a problem. In the past a lot of people would go: 'We're playing a woman.' But now they're thinking: 'We're playing a good player.'
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
- Enshrined
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
- Deepening
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- Nov 07, 2020