- Fate
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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
- Goodbye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arsenal's past appeals to me - I like clubs with a history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can move past your eating disorder and not let it have control over your life anymore.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020