#in the past

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#appearances #day #even #every #every day

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future. ↗

— Sydney Carter

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In the past, I was working out too heavy. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. ↗

— Heath Ledger

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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. ↗

— Ang Lee

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