- Certain
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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.
- Australians
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- Nov 07, 2020
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
- Nov 07, 2020
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't live in the past and say, 'if only.' You have to pick up and move along and make the world better.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
- Nov 07, 2020
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
- Covet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020