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• In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point… — Tony Blair
• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully… — Henri Nouwen
• In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
• Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced… — Thomas Sowell
• Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
• No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which… — Woodrow Wilson
• Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from… — Julie Andrews
• Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life… — Ayya Khema
• In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish
• That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. — Steve Carlton
• Righteousness is easy in retrospect. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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