#the past

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#encounter #even #events #hide #in the past

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#been #believe #beyond #done #envelope

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#changing #current #current state #ever #history

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

#beliefs #believe #come #illustrative #in the past

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

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

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#bad people #because #in the past #many #meaning

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#dead #department #down #i #in the past

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament. ↗

— Michael Chang

#attitude #close #come #even #feel

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#claim #falls #generation #in the past #next