“Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.” MindSaidPastEqualHinduismKrishnaPeanutsArjuna Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.” BelievePastCultureGreaterGenerationsModernPeriodsEqualSuperiorsNew GenerationModern Culture Book:Healology Source: Healology
“To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.” WholePastLawJusticePrinciplesEffectsEqualLaborSlaveRememberedBordersLakesRepublicEverlastingGeorgiaPacificCarolinaUnrequitedBarbarismSlopesMaineMassachusettsRelicsFugitiveMaturedVillainy Author:Horace Mann
“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.” ThinkingTryingWellsMayFactsPastLawStrangeEqualDegreesFundamentalsOpeningOur ThoughtsBackwardsMetaphysicalOpening Up Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.” IfsWorldWarCountryAmericaPastCausesPrinciplesVirtueHonestInspireBearsFameEqualAmbitionFairsAdversityProsperityOpeningFirmTemperRemembranceSerene Author:Thomas Paine