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• Creo que seré payaso cuando sea mayor -dijo Dill. Jem y yo nos detuvimos en seco. Sí, señor, payaso -dijo-. No hay nada en este mundo que pueda hacer por la gente excepto reírme, así que me uniré al circo y me partiré de risa'. Lo has entendido al revés, Dill -dijo Jem-. Los payasos son tristes, es la gente la que se ríe de ellos'. Bueno, yo voy a ser un nuevo tipo de payaso. Me pararé en el medio del ring y me reiré de la gente.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Track

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?

  Russell Brand

  Dna, Cells, Dust

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• When I was a young fellow, I used to learn the dialogue backwards. The point is that in a conversation between two people, you can't have already made the decisions about what you're gonna do. You gotta be very light on your feet. That leads you into areas where conversations can have a much bigger, grander meaning.

  Russell Crowe

  Light, Two, Feet

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• I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song."

  Mirah

  Canción, Pensamiento, Ideas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected around the world anymore. They know that this country is pushing the middle class, the hardworking taxpayers, backwards, and they saw a president who doesn't understand their pain, and doesn't have any plan for getting away from it.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Pain, Home

  Chris Christie at the 6th GOP debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I think there is something about being described and having your abilities described as something definable. I was diagnosed at about six, when a teacher couldn't understand how I could be a bright girl and yet couldn't read yet. I did that whole backwards letters thing. I used to sit in the same place when I did homework because I remembered that B's went towards the window and D's went away from it.

  Lucy Corin

  Girl, Teacher, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of being adored or people kind of bending over backwards for them. I see a lot of girls who aren't used to rejection because of that, and now all of a sudden they drop out of the business.

  Rosa de abril

  Cute, Girl, Growing Up

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• Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United States became this special place and then try to replicate it around the world, because that's the solution to the human condition. The solution to poverty, the solution to misery, the solution to backwards living is the United States of America. Why not learn how that happened, learn why and how we happened. What is it that made it special?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Simple, America, Common Sense

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

  David Frum

  Europe, Numbers, Democracy

  "David Frum: 'Cómo Donald Trump podría construir una autocracia en Estados Unidos'". "Morning Edition" con Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. 31 de enero de 2017.

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• We can't take a step backwards when we've already made so many strides forward. I was raised by gay men and women...it's who I am, you cannot define a family. There are children out there who need these loving homes. These are rights that are fundamental and must be had. And I will fight for however long it takes; I don't want to live in a world where prop 8 exists!

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, Home, Fighting

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• No importa si caminas despacio, siempre que no lo hagas hacia atrás.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Long, Walks, Walkers

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• Aún no había crecido lo suficiente como para darme cuenta de que vivir envía a una persona no al futuro, sino al pasado, a la infancia y antes del nacimiento, en fin, a comulgar con los muertos. Te haces mayor, resoplas en la escalera, entras en el cuerpo de tu padre. De ahí sólo hay un salto rápido a tus abuelos, y antes de que te des cuenta estás viajando en el tiempo. En esta vida crecemos hacia atrás.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Padre, Pasado, Abuelo

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). "Middlesex", p.425, A&C Black

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• That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied to the sensibility of the college-educated, multicultural crowd, of which I'm a part, which has created a sense where it's OK to say, "All the red state voters are stupid, they're all dummies, they're all racist, they're all backwards mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging ..." all that stuff. And that kind of elitism, which is first of all not true, is also not fair. It's also dumb strategy.

  Van Jones

  Stupid, Party, College

  Fuente: pen.org

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• Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

  Winston Churchill

  Letting Go, Dog, Breathing

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• I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.

  Tyler Cowen

  Optimistic, Thinking, Progress

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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• The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Doing What You Love, Genius, Logic

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.70, North Atlantic Books

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• [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cracks, Tables, Narnia

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

  John McCain

  Wall, Democracies Have, Effort

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• I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.

  John McCain

  Looks, Rancor

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• I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

  Octavia Spencer

  Moving, Thinking, Better Person

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• I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Agradable, Pensar, Gente

  "Divine dispatches: a religion roundup" Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

  Paul Arden

  Past, People, Risk

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• On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Mean, Wrestling, Feet

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• I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

  Stephen Moyer

  Daughter, Mother, America

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• Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

  Rob Bell

  Loss, Years, Events

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