#the past

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#brought #chosen #courage #fact #forgotten

Did you know that the word "tsunami," which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. ↗

— Junichiro Koizumi

#being #being used #did #disasters #extent

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization. ↗

— David Korten

#been #companies #downsizing #globalization #in the past

In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#doing #educating #eight #election #in the past

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. ↗

— Murray Walker

#happened #history #i #in the past #past

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#because #being #best #did #good

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#conditions #difference #in the past #lebanon #operated

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better #commodity #cultural #exchange #important

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#else #identity #immigration #in the past #mexican

I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#growing #growing old #i #in the past #old