Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
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I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.
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A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
