Past Quotes
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Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.
Peter Medawar
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Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
Anita Roddick
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An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.
Daniel Dennett
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I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.
Kevin Whately
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No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
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Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
Chip Conley
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I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
Kesha
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I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.
Martin Feldstein
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House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.
Ben Bernanke
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Al Stewart
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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
Ramana Maharshi
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I think the thought of a traditional family home is awesome. Traditional roles are becoming a thing of the past, but I think there is something really charming about them.
Bradley Cooper
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power;But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
John Dryden
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I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
Andre Agassi
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
Ramez Naam
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I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.
John Rampton
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie Smith
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
Iggy Pop
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Practised for centuries, repression has so badly succeeded that it has but led us into a blind alley from which we can only issue by carrying torch and hatchet into the institutions of our authoritarian past.
Peter Kropotkin
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I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
Rachel Platten
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The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
David Suzuki
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The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
Michael Moorcock
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Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
Dan Fogelberg