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«Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.»
«Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.»
«Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels»
«Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.»
«Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.»
«I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.»
«Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.»
«Revolutions never go backwards»
Author: Proverb | About: Revolution | Keywords: backwards, revolutions
«It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.»
«Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | About: Life | Keywords: backwards

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