Quotes 2241 till 2260 of 3161.
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future
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The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
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The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
Source: Collected Novels Volume Four (2016) 8 -
The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it's easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.
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The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
Source: The Inheritance of Loss (2006) 208 -
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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The present is just an instant between past and future
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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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