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1. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln

2. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. - John F. Kennedy

3. Look back, and smile on perils past. - Walter Scott

4. We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. - C. S. Lewis

5. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. -Winston Churchill

6. If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. - Elon Musk

7. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. - Jim Carrey

9. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - Oscar Wilde

10. Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

11. To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. - Khalil Gibran

12. To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. - Ronald Reagan

13. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry - Wadsworth Longfellow

14. If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter. - Olivia Wilde

15. There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. - Leo Tolstoy

17. When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. - Steve Jobs

18. Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. - Steven Spielberg

19. Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. - Ulysses S. Grant

20. Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head. - Elvis Presley

21. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

22. The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. - Sigmund Freud

23. What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud. - Mohammad Azharuddin

24. I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. - Michael Phelps

25. I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off. - Salman Khan

26. Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it. - Clint Eastwood

27. Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more. - Sam Walton

28. The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. - Michael Jordan

29. I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone. - Leonardo DiCaprio

30. Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.