- Look
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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
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
- Judging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Passenger is a bit of an ambiguous thing because in the past, it's been a band, or it's been just me, or a duo or whatever, but I kind of like that as well. I think it's whatever that I'm doing with whoever I'm doing it with!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020