In many ways the recent history of the Ukraine can be seen as an intensified version of the history of our era. Most of the political issues are familiar to us. Most of the methods used to meet those issues are also familiar. Events in the Ukraine pr...
You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coYou can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Noth...
Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new body may be provided--for a fee. (In the event of your mur...
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very li...
One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, bu...
One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about ...
Do you know where the past and the present intersect?" Jac asked him. "Where?" "In your mind, only. It's the only point. Otherwise, the past is further away than the furthest galaxy. We know it, intuitively, because we understand the irrevocability o...
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of fo...
Not everything has to be a couples' event.
Change is not an event, it's a process.
If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past.
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
