- Mistakes
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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
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
- Annihilate
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- Nov 07, 2020
One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020