- Hurt
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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about the past.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020