"The historian is a prophet looking backward." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss… — Fred Armisen
• You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker
• I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
• The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. — Bob Beauprez
• There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your… — Jeff Bezos
• I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not… — Michael N. Castle
• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill
• Silence moves faster when it's going backward. — Jean Cocteau
• Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in… — Jean Cocteau
• Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi

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