#in the past

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#debt #doubled #economic #in the past #municipal

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#automatic #basis #decisions #devices #fundamentally

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#in the past #mankind #means #methods #naive

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#arrived #batch #in the past #letters #like

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#been #development #in the past #leader #led

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it? ↗

— Damien Hirst

#better #definitely #exciting #future #going

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers. ↗

— John Hutton

#broader #business #consumers #costs #easy

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#colleagues #could #died #each #generally

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#in the past #made #mistakes #past #try