Past Quotes - Page 25

• Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

  Archilochus

  Order, Years, Joy

  Archilochos, “To His Soul”

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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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• A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

  Bernard Crick

  Revenge, Suffering, Vengeance

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.87, University of Chicago Press

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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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• Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

  Xenocrates

  Giving, Advice, Comfort

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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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• The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

  Erik Naggum

  Evil, Important, Shapes

  "Stalin is not a cool name for software". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 30, 1998.

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• Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Mind, Skins

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• This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.

  Dana Gioia

  Prayer, Loss, Waiting

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

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• I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Writing, Optimistic, Hopeful

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.

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• In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Night, Rays, Stories

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• We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Thinking, Germany

  "Expressionism". Book by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, p. 74, 2004.

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• The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

  Marsden Hartley

  Yankees, Heritage, Virtue

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 11, 1988.

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Compliments You, Hatred

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.

  Koichi Haraguchi

  Korea, Issues, Progress

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• We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.

  Liu Jingmin

  Years, Competition, Training

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• The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.

  Bob Weinstein

  Brother, Adventure, Character

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• That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

  Nicola Roberts

  Girl, Men, Firsts

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• A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

  Frank Underhill

  People, Together, Done

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• As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.

  Florencio Abad

  Regret, Party, President

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• The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

  John Kurtz

  Love, Art, Looks

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• Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.

  Jules Breton

  Art, Museums, Quality

  Jules Breton (1892). “The Life of an Artist: An Autobiography”

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• If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

  Nelson Shanks

  Thinking, Museums, Joy

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