- Political
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
- Concern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
- Peanut Butter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot walk past Peanut Butter M&Ms and Oreos.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I make good beats, but when it's not mastered correctly, it can definitely make it sound like it's not a good beat, and that has been an issue sometimes with me in the past.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget the past, and ask me what's next.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
- Criticise
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- Nov 07, 2020