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Tag Name "Backward" (306)

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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
Gayle Forman
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Revolutions never go backward.
William H. Seward
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson
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No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
William Ruckelshaus
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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Loren Eiseley
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I start with the joke line and write backward.
Nipsey Russell
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
Dante Alighieri
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
Patrick Stewart
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There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
David Bronstein
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My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.
Vijay Singh
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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
Colum McCann
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The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
Saib Tabrizi
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In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.
James Arthur Ray
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An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
Jeremy Taylor
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Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
James Altucher
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You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.
Becca Fitzpatrick
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
Victor Hugo
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In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.
Edward R. Murrow
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The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.
Raymond Charles Barker
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Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.
W. Bruce Cameron
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Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.
David Levithan
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