- Me
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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.
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- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Tory privatisations in the past we've seen how service users can end up losing out and getting a raw deal.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the flaws of its author. But those hardy souls who slog past the weaknesses will be rewarded by a book that is brave, original and often fun.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once your company grows past a certain point, upholding values becomes more and more difficult. This is where companies get into trouble. Thus, it's absolutely critical to take your company values seriously and practice it every day.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the biggest thing is just focusing on the day-to-day, your routine, not getting caught up in the future or the past and just being right there and focusing on what you have to do that day or that night to help your team win.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020