- Clarify
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We’ve had that in the past. We’re in for players if the manager wants to be.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020