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“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”

Looks Past Forget Intention Looking Back Backwards Forget The Past

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Moving Meetings Moving Forward Backwards Recent Past

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.”

Long Past Steps Benefits Long Time Backwards Joyous

Book:Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”

Thinking Trying Wells May Facts Past Law Strange Equal Degrees Fundamentals Opening Our Thoughts Backwards Metaphysical Opening Up

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.”

Looks Eye Age Past Conviction Nostalgia Golden Backwards Golden Age

Author:Esther Meynell