#in the past

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past. ↗

— Bud Selig

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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. ↗

— Idries Shah

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Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

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In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

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I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. ↗

— John Barton

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It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

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