Quotes by Past Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. Al Stewart future past fall I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future. Alan Arkin philosophy believe past In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it. Alan Bersin insult-to-injury war past For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order. Alan Brinkley order past years History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background. Alan Bullock nuclear-disarmament race past To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. Alan Cohen destiny attitude past Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation. Alan Cohen seeing appreciation past View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. Alan Cohen views wings past You change the past when you change the way you see it. Alan Cohen perspective way past Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come. Alan Cohen our-past your-past past I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. Alan Dundes formulas worldview past Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past. Alan Dundes disregard past 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. Alan Dundes taken trying past I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past. Alan Furst book past thinking By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. Alan Greenspan expansion events past But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? Alan Greenspan japan unexpected past The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns. Alan Greenspan technology roots past Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? Alan Greenspan japan risk past It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan derivatives business past We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability. Alan Greenspan two past years «345678910111213»