- Sleep
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product.
- Stronger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played music that's terrible in the past, and not everyone likes you, which is fine.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020