Past Quotes
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I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
Angus Deaton
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One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?
Ann Turner
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
Laila Lalami
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I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
Lynn Nottage
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People at risk of 'honour'-based violence require long-term support, often years past the closure of a case, for continuing culturally-sensitive psychological support and the development of long-term protection plans.
Deeyah Khan
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This book is past the first flush of youth. It is a book that is in puberty. It is hesitating, and from the vantage point of the mature reader, it is both a sad and amusing reminder of the part which is not always attractive enough to be revisited.
Peter Greenaway
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'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.
Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
Jonathan Sacks
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Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.
Bethany Hamilton
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There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
Paul Twitchell
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It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
Jane Yolen
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It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
Dave Chappelle
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True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
Peter Diamandis
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
M. King Hubbert
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Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is-it’s over.
Byron Katie
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
Jonathan Sacks
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Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.
Martin Shkreli
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Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
Andrzej Wajda
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Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
William Finnegan
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Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
Gene Scott
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
Dominick Cruz
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As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.
Casey Kasem