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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
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
- Criminality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020