#the past

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. ↗

— David McCullough

#first #first of all #in the past #lived #make

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? ↗

— Roland Joffe

#einstein #history #in the past #knows #looks

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#any #building #carrying #enemy #freedom

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#foot #i #i am #in the past #past

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#begins #everything #future #in the past #living

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#administrative #been #circuit #court #debate