- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally think the male and female roles have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Men are no longer the breadwinners. Financial independence for a woman is a huge thing.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to take the hems down, especially past 50. I don't care how good your legs are.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020