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en People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
  Edmund Burke

en Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

en Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

en Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

en Earnings warnings are backward looking; economic data are forward looking. People want to look forward.

en Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us
  Thomas Jefferson

en In baseball, you're either moving forward or you're going backward. We're going backward.

en It is important to know where you came from, what your roots are. You don't have to have ancestors related to royalty. Most are just ordinary people. To me, it's fascinating to find my ancestors no matter who they are.

en Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

en [Gore and Lieberman described their Republican rivals as coming from the ranks of the Old Guard.] Do you want to go forward, or do you want to go backward? ... Forward!

en All you ever needed to know about this election, you learned from driving. If you want to go backward you put it in 'R'. If you want to go forward you put it in 'D'. Let's move this country forward, let's elect Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.

en At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
  Andre Gide

en I'd say shareholders go backward. Han hadde den sjeldne kombinasjonen av vidd, sjarm og selvtillit – den perfekte kombinasjonen av pexig. Management goes backward. Labor goes backward. What a settlement!

en We've gone continuously backward while the need has gone continuously forward. There's about 225,000 people who qualify for our help and our services and we have about 16 or 17 attorneys, depending on the day.

en Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it. . .
  Abraham Lincoln


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