- Phone Call
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people see me, and they can't get past my looks or the fact that a girl can be serious about playing the guitar.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020