- Character
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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
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, if I was in the middle of a situation involving my personal life, I was always keeping it to me and my family. I wasn't explaining or telling the fans what was going on because they don't need to know.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
WWE is a PG and a family product. Everybody can watch and enjoy WWE, whereas in the past, the parents were worried about what their kids were watching because of the blood, foul language, etc.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've gone to a sci-fi convention, you've only seen half of it. 'Con Man' delivers what convention 'all-access' passes have only promised in the past.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- Economical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020