- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020