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«No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.»
«Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God»
Author: Evelyn Underhill
| About:
Christianity,
History
| Keywords:
most unattractive, pressure, retrospect, tasks, unattractive
«Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.»
«When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.»
«History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ''history'' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bullshit, flash, hired, now and then, reasonable, retrospect
«We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely. In retrospect, committing to the graphics interface seems so obvious that now it's hard to keep a straight face.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
committing, graphic, graphics, immensely, interface, paid off, pay off, retrospect, windows
«So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
confined, of each person, preparation, retrospect, routine
«The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
retrospect, The Mark, The Mark of
«The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf -the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
all but, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, Out of the Past, retrospect, shadows, sleeper, sleepers, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, The Shadows, unfathomed
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