4,591 Quotes About Past

  • Author Robert Plant
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    It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

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  • Author Shimon Peres
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    Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.

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  • Author Shimon Peres
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    Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.

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  • Author Stacey Phillips
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    We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

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  • Author Steven Pinker
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    [I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.

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