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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force. ↗

— Otto Schily

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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#alone #anything #been #good #happening

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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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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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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I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#background #been #class background #come #downstairs

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too. ↗

— Vince Gill

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