Past Quotes
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Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.
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Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
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Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?
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'The past is the past,' Harry goes on, 'you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning.'
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
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There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one that jumps out in my mind.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
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People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.
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With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.
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The past doesn't matter. Take today.
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
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Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.
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I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.
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Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
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My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
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We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.
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The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.
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We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
