Past Quotes
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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.
John McCain
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When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
Kanye West
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Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
Courtney Love
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In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.
Olaf Stapledon
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Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
Hannah Arendt
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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.
Ai Weiwei
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The further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.
Dennis Prager
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I don't really look into the past too much.
Shawn Mendes
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury
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Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.
Mark McKinnon
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I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.
Karen Essex
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I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
Edward M. Lerner
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There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
