- Life
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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.
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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.
- European Nations
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Days Of Future Past' comic, the aim is to go back in time to preserve peace for the lives of mutants in the future.
- Crumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
- Going Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
- Nov 07, 2020
I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020