Quotes 441 till 460 of 503.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.
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We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
Moth Smoke (2012) 9 -
When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
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