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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
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Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
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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.
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Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
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Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
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