- Blossomed
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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
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stay stuck in the past.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020