- Fun
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only when we ensure that the mistakes of our past are not the vision for our future, will we truly have achieved justice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
- Excuses
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- Nov 07, 2020