Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011
I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.
In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.
I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.
One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.
I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.
I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
