- Anglo-Saxon
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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
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look back, and smile on perils past.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020