- 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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020