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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. -- Theodor Adorno
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. -- George Carlin
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Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? -- Newt Gingrich
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. -- Lucy Powell
Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past. -- Hilton Kramer
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. -- C. S. Lewis
I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD. -- Charles Bartlett Johnson
When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left? -- George Carlin
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this. -- Charlie Munger
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past. -- Don DeLillo
I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. -- Penelope Lively
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. -- Terry Pratchett
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. -- Gaston Bachelard
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way. -- Terry Eagleton
One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney
I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past. -- Wilbur Smith
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future. -- Carly Fiorina
I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society. -- Zack Snyder

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