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“I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.”

Past Growth Records Tree Ocean Core Rings Ice Temperature Variation Over The Past Millennium Proxy

Author:Michael E. Mann

“In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.”

People Has Beens Past Memories Records Focus Tense Instagram Present Tense

Author:Kevin Systrom

“The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.”

Body Past Records Buddhism Available Impression Our Past Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.”

Mind Past Records Buddhism Ancestor Our Past Dna Your Past Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.”

Knows Might Past Sides Records Rocks Responsible Arguing Excess Rock And Roll My Past Tolls Hardcore Rockers

Author:Tony Visconti

“Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."”

May Past Science Records Phenomenon Rapids Geology

Author:D. V. Ager

“The past is gained, secure, and on record.”

Past Records Secure

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Past Used Company Records Share Band Percent Bigger Sells Albums Disappear Labels Shops Bad Things More Money Record Companies Record Labels

Author:Richard Branson

“We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.”

Made Past Faces Fall Records Promise Our Past

Book:Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v

Source: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v

“I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.”

Matter School Past Used Records Employee Promotion Evaluate

Author:Akio Morita

“There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.”

Men Kind Age Past Records Overcoming Miracle Prejudice Remains Instance Despise Signals

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.”

Ifs Age Past Causes History Records Office Deserve Ill Justify Tyrants Instruction Persecution Maxims Roman Empire Transactions

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.”

Shows Past Records Pressure Promoting

Author:Richard Marx

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests