- 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
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more powerful a technology greater care should be used to benefit fro it. India should not be left behind the world. From the past revolution of nuclear technology we saw how it could destruct and at the same time were useful for medical science.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always go into every fight trying to forget about what happened in the past, whether I won or lost.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.
- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.
- Creator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020