- Me
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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
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
- Nov 07, 2020
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.
- Heirs
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- Nov 07, 2020
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020