Alan Dundes Quotes, Taken Quotes, Past Quotes

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

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Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

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America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

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What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

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The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

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Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.

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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

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If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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