- Nothing
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anything about CM Punk. I'd never even heard of him until he was mentioned in UFC. I wouldn't know him if I walked past him in the street, I don't know... he might be a good wrestler but there are people in the UFC who are just good wrestlers.
- English
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
- Holiday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
- Nov 07, 2020