- Joy
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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
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no shame in being a support act for anyone. It's been extremely beneficial for us to be allowed onstage for any of the artists we've toured with, and we've gotten some big exposure from them sharing their crowds with us in the past.
- Caliber
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020