Past Quotes
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The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.
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7) Any damn fool can predict the past.
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In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
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I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.
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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
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In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
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Illinois has commonsense regulations on concealed carry permits. For example, if you had two or more D.U.I.'s within five years, within the past five years, you do not have the right in Illinois to obtain a concealed weapons permit.
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In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
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While I don't in any way question your honor, your patriotism or your service to our country, I do question some of the decisions, the judgments you’ve made over the past two and a half years. During that time things have gotten markedly and progressively worse.
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Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.
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I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
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It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
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At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.
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The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
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As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.
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The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
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Over the past decade a combination of diverse forces has created a significant increase in the global supply of saving -- a global saving glut.
