- Logic
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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
- Peaceful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
- Nov 07, 2020
Privacy is a thing of the past.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cheerleading is kind of dumb. I didn't admit to my daughter that I was a cheerleader until she was past the age when I thought she might want to do it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020