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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt

Past Tell Historians Story Novelists Present

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds. Edmund Morgan

Needs History Result Black Gender Past Other Has-Been Black History Kinds Both Investigating Conceptual Limits Been Historians American Any Done In The Past Ethnic European Works Flood Away Deserves Among Things

No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens. Edmund Morgan

Past Some Bearing No-One Without Escapes Burdens

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. Edsger Dijkstra

Future Generation Mistake Language Past Programming Carried Through Perfection New New Generation Bums Creates Coding Techniques

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. Edward Bond

Experience Collective Goodness Past Became Always In The Past Then

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Future Men Past Energy Virtue Atone Repent Left Who

Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future. Edward M. Lerner

Future Science Past Asteroid Distant Trips Empires Remote Science Fiction Deals Lots Times Fiction Places Epics Belt

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books. Eike Batista

You Science People Better Past Books Finding Read Learned Course Years Lot Than Oil In The Past Engineers Need

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it. Eli Pariser

Communication Remember Internet Will Important Past Controlling Congress Down Other Lobbying Unless Locked About Something How Important Thing Effective Very Happen In The Past Information Again Interest Pattern Companies Large Media Thing Flows

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin. Elif Batuman

Past Thinking Penicillin Immoral Idealize Because Up Grew In The Past Slavery

Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him. Eliza Doolittle

It often happens that you leave your house in the dark, shoot on a sound stage without natural lighting, and then go home in the dark. A whole week can go past, and it can feel like 12 hours. Elizabeth Debicki

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows. Ellen DeGeneres

Crazy Past Sole Sole Purpose Windows About Purpose Never Stuff Over Also Years Times Any Getting Move Moved Rid Wash

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. Elton John

Music Past Write Piano Making Am In The Past

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong. Elvis Costello

Past Add Record Strong-Willed Take Had Wrong Because Always Been Tinker In The Past Really Found Away Nearly Thing

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. Elvis Costello

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I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good. Elvis Duran

Good You Feelings Past Before Live Think Slept Once Mood Because Doing Were Woke Up Anymore In The Past Really Should Means Planned Your Exploring Planning Show Found Night

One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the '80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it's a thing of the past - it's not. Elvis Duran

In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard. Elvis Mitchell

Past Films Carry Someone He Missed Clearly Period Always Built Years Fits Regard Bill Workout Helps Sword Two

I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything. Emilia Clarke

Love Walk Random Girl Past Extra Give More Scenarios More Than Anything Arm Like Than Just Anything Right Right Arm

I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future. Emily Procter

Future Key Wait Thought Past Baby Someone Shared Genes Look Looked She Provide Going Realized Then Who Actually

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