Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
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In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.
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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It was pretty clear after the game that they probably didn't take the game as seriously as they would have in retrospect. I think that happens sometimes, it probably happens when we're involved more than others because we're not the sexiest-looking outfit on film.
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Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
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So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very ...
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
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So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
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