Over The Past Quotes - Page 4

• An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

  Edith Hall

  Past, Roots, Half

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• The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

  Bill Ayers

  Past, Half, World

  "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.

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• I wouldn't trade the experiences I've had over the past 36 years for anything.

  Gil Gerard

  Past, Years, Trade

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• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

  Leon Kass

  Past, Looks, Century

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• You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Real, War

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• We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

  Everett Dirksen

  Past, Years, Agony

  Congressional Record, vol. 113, January 11, 1967.

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• Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

  Steven Johnson

  Past, Average, Years

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  Ralph Neas

  Past, Rights, Progress

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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.

  Marty Meehan

  Past, Average, Years

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• Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict.

  Henri Cole

  War, Past, Reality

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• Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live.

  Brad Feld

  Past, Years, Gone

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• I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Past, Years

  "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling Listen". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.

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• Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.

  Peter Schiff

  Fall, Past, Thinking

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• Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Past, World

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• We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Country, Past

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.109, Random House

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• I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Past, Years

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• Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Past, Ideas

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

  Rick Yancey

  Moving, Past, Waiting

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.296, Penguin

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• Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.

  Ross Garnaut

  Powerful, Taken, Ignorance

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• Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  Past, Years, Long

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• If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Taken, Winning

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• Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect their hearts to charity. Muslims worldwide have stretched out a hand of mercy to those in need. Charity tables at which the poor can break their fast line the streets of cities and towns. And gifts of food and clothing and money are distributed to ensure that all share in God's abundance. Muslims often invite members of other families to their evening iftar meals, demonstrating a spirit of tolerance.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• ...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Past

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• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

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• I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

  Lily Allen

  Girl, Jobs, Couple

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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