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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.
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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
- Family Farm
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In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
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Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
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I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.
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I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
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People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.
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Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
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If I do a bad dive, that's in the past. Move on. The next dive is a completely separate thing. It's just about being really present in a particular moment.
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Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
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