- 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
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is not just about the past.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
- History
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I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
- Surprises
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
- History
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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.
- Something
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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
- Memory
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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020