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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

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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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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

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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

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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. ↗

— Marc Almond

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One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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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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Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. ↗

— Neil LaBute

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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

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