Ai Weiwei Quotes, Past Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Past Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Past Quotes

There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Past Quotes

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Past Quotes , Causes Quotes

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Past Quotes

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , Forget Quotes

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

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Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Past Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes , Reason Quotes

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

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Tags : A. J. P. Taylor Quotes , Past Quotes , Names Quotes

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Past Quotes , Movement Quotes

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Past Quotes , Reign Quotes

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Past Quotes

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Past Quotes

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Past Quotes

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Past Quotes , History Quotes

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Past Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes