- God
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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
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast skies filled with terrifying and beautiful butts. And, of course, the food.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think getting rid of my leg was getting rid of the past and getting ready for my journey ahead.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020