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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
American
President
Born:
Jan 30
,
1882
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Steve Jobs
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Me
You
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Karma
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Destiny
All The Difference
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Your
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
Life
You
Ego
Illusion
Backwards
Become
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Way
Only
Prevent
Self
True
Idea
Knowing
Identity
True Self
False
Very
Influential
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Letting
Believing
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
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Progress
Backwards
More
Merely
Provided
Efficient
Going
Us
Means
Technological
Technological Progress
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling
You
Backwards
Fall
Down
Never
Look
Stairs
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You
Discipline
Backwards
Sideways
Plenty
Never
Talent
Like
Know
Without
Octopus
Roller
Going
Movement
Skates
Forward
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
World
Evil
Backwards
Beginning
Back
Bored
Boredom
No Wonder
Advances
Since
Spreads
Were
Very
Wonder
Gods
Goes
Human
Human Beings
Then
Root
Created
Therefore
Beings
The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.
James Carville
You
Moving Forward
Backwards
Stumble
Worry
Stationary
About
Guy
Only
Never
Pushing
Stumbling
Person
Moving
Forward
Keep
Ever
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Backwards
Reactionary
Walking
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen Keller
Youth
World
Will
Backwards
Possible
Civilization
Advance
Headstrong
May
While
Length
Flow
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