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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
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
- Feedback
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- Nov 07, 2020
We resurrect 'Mezzanine' with a promise that we can break free from the data of the past and escape the feedback loops.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.
- Contests
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020