- Long
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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
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I think my films that focused on African subjects struggled in the marketplace because of their subject matter.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020