- Believe
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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.
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- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I worked for HAL, and when working there, I had limitations and had restrictions on what I could create. They wanted me to make the next 'Smash Bros.' and the next 'Kirby,' and that wasn't the place for me.
- Tomorrow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are tomorrow's past.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020