4,591 Quotes About Past

  • Author Margaret Mead
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    If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

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  • Author Marshall McLuhan
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    Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

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  • Author Marty Meehan
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    Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

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  • Author Matt Mullenweg
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    One of the things I’ve been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface,

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  • Author Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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    My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

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  • Author Megan McCafferty
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    But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.

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  • Author Merrill Markoe
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    Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

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