"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to……" — Thomas Huxley

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• I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched… — Roberto Benigni
• Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. — Aneurin Bevan
• There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your… — Jeff Bezos
• I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my… — Michael Biehn
• People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down… — Linda Blair
• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
• I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
• It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more… — David Byrne
• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. — Lewis Carroll

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