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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
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, as in the past, rank is closely associated with modes of representation and display: with making an ordered arrangement of people or things visible and evident to onlookers in some fashion.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister's question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, the imperialism of the West, like that of the rest, was often difficult - for the doers as well as for their victims - but western states were, nonetheless, usually able to dispatch forces overseas against non-western peoples without any fear of being attacked themselves. That kind of immunity is probably now a thing of the past.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empire in the past was always a far harsher and much more accident-prone business than conventional history books imply. And the costs of these overseas invasions were borne not just by those on the receiving end but - frequently - by ordinary, vulnerable people among or associated with the invaders.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shameless,' and - this is going to sound really dorky - I'm obsessed with 'Dance Moms.' I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer. Maybe if I ever get a big enough name, I can call Abby Lee Miller myself and ask her to be my private coach.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020