- 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
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020