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In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758. -- Edmond Halley
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. -- Edward Gibbon
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh. -- David Chase
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. -- David Ricardo
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. -- Thomas Jefferson
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. -- Todd Gitlin
The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan. -- Charles R. Drysdale
Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor's paunch. -- Richard Dawkins
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft. -- Quincy Jones
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde. -- Cornel West
I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate. -- George Brandis
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. -- Winston Churchill
There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.] -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay. -- Alanis Morissette
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress. -- June Jordan

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