- In The Past
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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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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem.
- Fret
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can build a better, more representative democracy through technology and ensure what Abraham Lincoln called the last, best hope for Earth will endure past the 21st Century.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.
- Nov 07, 2020