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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
- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries.
- Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes past my record and becomes the most prolific fast bowler in Test history.
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- Nov 07, 2020