Past Quotes - Page 24

• While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Attitude, Events, Belief

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Love isn't love until it's past.

  Prince

  Love, Love Is

  Song: Sometimes It Snows In April

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• Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

  Gene Wolfe

  Spring, Wine, Men

  Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.329, Macmillan

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• It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

  Michael Foot

  Country, Rights, Judging

  Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

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• While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

  Robert E. Howard

  Book, Flying, Veils

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.316, Del Rey

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• Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.

  Ted Hughes

  Depth, Nightfall, England

  Ted Hughes (2010). “Lupercal”, p.52, Faber & Faber

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• The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.

  Paul Krugman

  Taken, Successful, Self

  "Enemies of the WTO", Slate Magazine, November 24, 1999.

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• To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

  Paul Krugman

  Sacrifice, Skills, People

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

  Evo Morales

  Community, Way, Life Is

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• [The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  Yann Martel

  Fate, Animal, Hatred

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.97, Knopf Canada

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• I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

  Sarah Palin

  Stars, Unique, Years

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• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Years, League, Germany

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

  Alan Shepard

  Agency, Rise Above, Adverse

  "The Flight of Memory - Mercury Reunion Honors Glenn's Voyage" by Elizabeth Kastor, The Washington Post, p. G1, February 21, 1987.

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• The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Powerful, People

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• Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.

  Jack Tretton

  Team, Passion, Commitment

  "Jack Tretton To Step Down As President And CEO Of Sony Computer Entertainment America". Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., www.prnewswire.com. March 06, 2014.

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• You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

  Rick Remender

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, People

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Eye, Cosmos

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

  Hannah

  Understanding, Atrocities, Different

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.

  George Sarton

  Heart, Alive, World

  George Sarton (1959). “A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C”

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• If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.

  George Sarton

  Soul, World, Succeed

  George Sarton (1959). “A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C”

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• Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.

  Brock Chisholm

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics". Et cetera, 61, pp. 482-486, 2004.

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• The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

  Lu Tong

  Wall, Pain, Loneliness

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Meaning Of Life, World

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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