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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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
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In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
- Good Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020