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“I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.”

People Feels Mean Past Faces Taken Wall Paid Destitute Nowhere To Go

Author:Alexander Lebed

“Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.”

Said Past Taken Car Mouths Soap Bad Word Curfew

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.”

Years Past Break Taken Media Spotlight

Author:Gemma Ward

“Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.”

Way Years Ideas Past Religious Vision Taken Five Eight Something New Providing Rapture Resonating

Author:Eric Horvitz

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.”

“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.”

Knows Men Wells Enough Facts Home Running Jobs Past Certain Know How Taken Broken Men And Women Woods Decades Magazines Assumption Shops Articles Transfers Suggesting

Author:Robert Briffault

“To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.”

Has Beens Dream Past Belief Wish Taken Ancient Dreamer Fulfilled Representing Indestructible

Book:THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities

Source: THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities

“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.”

Men Years Firsts Facts Past Understanding Taken Saws Four Listening Understood Female Twenties Males Glasses Assumption Powerlessness Magnifying Magnifying Glass False Assumptions

Author:Warren Farrell

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.”

Ifs Past Moving Knowledge Learning Taken Limits Active Cease Ties About Yourself Accumulation Static Learning Knowledge Learning About Yourself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.”

Believe Country Past Values Sound Levels Common Business Situation Taken Week Conditions Son Amount Destruction Fundamentals Investment My Son Continuing Warrants Purchasing

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.”

“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.”

People Ifs Way Needs Long Sometimes Christian Past Used Speak Language Realizing Christianity Opinion Taken Long Time Useless Conventional

Author:Wendell Berry

“There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.”

Ifs Thinking May Past Fun Enjoy Taken New York Wall Degrees Universal Bars Holes Absurd Legendary Sewage Poking Fun

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.”

Thinking Life Moments Eye Past Force Answers Wonder Taken Saws Authority Dancing Wit Cosmic Precise Arrested Pondering My Past Past And Present Volcanoes Matching Rims Hassle

Book:The Wrong Stuff

Source: The Wrong Stuff

“I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.”

Ifs Want Years Long Enough Past Taken Havens Projects New Projects

Author:I. M. Pei

“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.”

Years Long Has Beens Government Might Past Cases Issues Taken Five Building Projects Long Time Seven Average Accepted Approval Seven Years Funding

Author:I. M. Pei

“The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.”

Want Giving Mean Enough Past Justice Pay Silence Forever Taken Sentences Coming Back Had Enough Rail

Book:After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

Source: After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.”

World Believe Past Taken Moved Conventional Moved On Conventional Wisdom Remnants

Book:Next

Source: Next