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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Life and Living
Soren Kierkegaard

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
Life and Living
Soren Kierkegaard

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage
King Jr. Martin Luther

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So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
Uncategorised
Charles Kingsley

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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
Argument
Edward Koch

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus

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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Defeat
Greg Lake

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Life and Living
Ann Landers

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Perseverance
Abraham Lincoln

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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Progress
Abraham Lincoln

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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Progress
Abraham Lincoln

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Desire
John Locke

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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Kindness
Malayan Proverb

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Power
Malcolm X

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Science and Scientists
Don Marquis

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Past
Marcus Valerius Martial

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But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Time and Time Management
Andrew Marvell

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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Riches
Karl Marx

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Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Babies
Marshall Mcluhan

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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Biography
George Meredith

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It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back.
Burdens
Silas Weir Mitchell

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.
Action
John Pierpont Morgan

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Writers and Writing
John Mortimer

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
School
George Orwell

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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Competition
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun