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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change, Work, Freedom

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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

Life, Mirror, Thinks

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unless, Ride, Bent

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Life, Through, Learned

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forward, Spiritual, Reality

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem

Powerful, Learned, Dealing

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

Sea, Ocean, Whether

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

Courage, Fear, Hold

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

Wrong, Means, Progress

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach

Love, Someone, Free

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music, Loneliness, Between

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Enough, Become

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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott

Smile, Past, Perils

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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

Person, Different, Yesterday

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln

Walk, Slow, Walker

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Society

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

Time, Important, Try

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

Away, Hug, Boomerang

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Strength, Nothing, Find

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Mean, Off, Left

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Forward, Real, Living

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur

Time, Down, Happens

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth

Fear, Hold, Striking

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

Life, Death, Child

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur

Death, Fear, Coming

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

Past, Enough, Rich

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

God, Talent, Gift

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

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

Peace, Wife, Loyalty

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