- Ignore
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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
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020