- Listening
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past has to inform the present.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020