- Future
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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
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one that jumps out in my mind.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020