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Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American
Poet
Born:
May 25
,
1803
Died:
Apr 27
,
1882
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
Try
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Backward
Looking Forward
Upward
Avoid
Forward
Keep
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
Time
Freedom
Socialism
Revolution
Mark
Back
Our
Press
Backward
Must
About
He
Towards
Headlong
Course
Talks
Makes
Always
Go
Goes
Cannot
Who
Forward
Now
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
Taylor Swift
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You
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Cheating
Backward
Someone
Take
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Wanting
Conscious
Thing
Needing
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
Life
Future
Enemies
Past
Real Life
Our
Backward
Unpredictable
Takes
Real
Place
Us
Ifs
Forward
Now
Here
Pull
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
People
Will
Ancestors
Backward
Posterity
Never
Look
Who
Forward
Dog is God spelled backward.
Duane Chapman
God
Dog
Backward
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
Adam McKay
Good
Skin
Thinking
Way
Backward
Someone
Color
Come
Like
Judging
Anything
Skin Color
Based
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman
Education
Capitalism
Everyone
Everything
States
Backward
Admit
About
Fact
Exceptionally
Empire
Categories
Loss
American
Afraid
Different
In Fact
Want
Happened
Which
Infrastructure
Fifteen
United
United States
Fragility
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
Tom Wolfe
Wait
First
Walks
Situation
Bit
Backward
See
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Then
Milieu
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