- Failure
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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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
- Demoralized
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020