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  • The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes
  • During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes
  • Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes
  • Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Past Quotes , Icy Quotes
  • If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks Quotes
  • Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , People Quotes