- Conversation
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back and thinking about the past and what I've done makes no sense - I'd like to keep achieving things. Then, when I retire, I will appreciate everything that's happened and everything I've achieved.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.
- Cynicism
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- Nov 07, 2020