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The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.


Vladimir Nabokov


#retrospect #life

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.


David Ricardo


#common #fall #retrograde #rise #society

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.


Criss Jami


#despair #despair-hope #encouraging #facet #hope

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.


Paul Theroux


#glamorous #only #retrospect

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.


Ted Demme


#filmmakers #films #happens #i #i think

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.


Robert Frost


#books #i #i am #learn #order

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.


Vladimir Nabokov


#before #being #complacency #exists #mind

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.


Marc Newson


#history #i #know #people #people say

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.


Robert Peel


#burst #courage #his #indignation #man

Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.


Jeffrey Skilling


#differently #done #happen #i #i think






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