- 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
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
- Craves
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020