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Tag Name "Backward" (303)

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I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
Hilary Putnam
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One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
W. H. Auden
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To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This is not because the steps which connect the two have been omitted, but because those steps are taken by the unconscious.
Frances G. Wickes
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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Ernst Haas
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If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
Kip Thorne
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Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward
Thomas S. Monson
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Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!
Elizabeth Chase Allen
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O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.
J. K. Rowling
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Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.
Shitou Xiqian
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If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.
Angela Johnson
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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Josef Albers
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Barber
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Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant- Meant! she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant? You, he said. And me.
Laini Taylor
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The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.
Umair Haque
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This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.
Adnan Pachachi
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
Taylor Swift
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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
Jodi Picoult
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The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
Igor Sikorsky
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
C. S. Lewis
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When Donald Trump says, Let's make America great again, that is code for let's take America backward. Back to a time when opportunity and dignity were reserved for some, not all. Back to the days when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited. Well, Donald, those days are over.
Hillary Clinton
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I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.
Polly Allen Mellen
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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Louis Sachar
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Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam Hussein
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