"The present has its Ã©lan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Past Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”
“Public education is an investment in our future.”
“Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet”

Source : Song: 7 Minute Freestyle, 2003
“A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.”
“My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have the change to see it. I hope the guerrilla understands that the time has come to leave this 50-year confrontation behind; that the time has come to change from bullets to votes, from weapons to argumentations; that the time has come for them to continue their struggle, but within democracy.”
“In the office, Michael sat behind our fatherâ€™s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.”
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”
“The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.”

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