Famous Quotes: Past

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
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I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'
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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
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What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.
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I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
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