Past Quotes
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We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.
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In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.
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There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.
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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
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Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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I have a sordid past.
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I think we're going to find some other things. And I think that when all of this is put into context, and we really look at the people involved here, look at their motivations and look at their backgrounds, look at their past behavior, some folks are going to have a lot to answer for.
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Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
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The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.
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I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.
