Past Quotes
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It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
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One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
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If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.
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I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.
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There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
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Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.
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...I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
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The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.
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There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.
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I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.
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Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
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I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.
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Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing-finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
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I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
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Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'
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Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
