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• Revolutions never go backwards.

  Wendell Phillips

  Revolution

  "Speech". February 17, 1861.

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• The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Past, Mirrors, Views

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• I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.

  Ricky Van Veen

  Mistake, Thinking, Target Audience

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• The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Darkness, Movement, Return

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• Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Goodbye, Opposites, World

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• I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Life, Looking Forward, Interest

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• We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

  Jeff Bezos

  Starting, Touchstones, Customers

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• You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.

  David Lee Roth

  Choices, Lasts, Alphabet

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 19, 2002.

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• Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

  Jeff Bezos

  Needs, Inventory, Kindles

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• We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

  Jeff Bezos

  Obsessed, Competitors, Customers

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  We all get distracted,  the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

  Kendrick Lamar

  Distracted, Bounce

  Song: Growing Apart

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• Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Oil, Technique

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• The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Character, Individual Choice

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• We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

  Jay Leno

  America, Issues, Political

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• If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Past, Darkness, Lasts

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.15, Arktos

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• I've watched Clueless as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.

  Krysten Ritter

  Running, Clueless, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

  K. D. Lang

  Stars, Rocks, Typical

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• It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Horse, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Oct 13, 2011

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• She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backwards, right into Nico's sword. "Nice one," Paul said. "When did you learn to fire a shotgun?" I demanded. My mom blew the hair out of her face. "About two seconds ago. Percy, we'll be fine. Go!

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Nice, Fire

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• It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Age, Veils

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Freedom Of Speech, Revolution

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• China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

  Dalai Lama

  Liberty, Democracy, World

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• You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

  Chief Joseph

  Running, Men, Rivers

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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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Knowledge, College, Looks

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• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

  James Hillman

  Loss, United States, Different

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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