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It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

Patricia Moyes
retrospect causes interesting

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

Paul Farmer
retrospect should-have country
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, e... by Paul Kingsnorth

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

Paul Kingsnorth
retrospect intention determine
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. by Paul Theroux

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux
retrospect memorable travel

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

Paula Fox
retrospect consciousness people
I really tend to write in retrospect. by Randy Houser

I really tend to write in retrospect.

Randy Houser
retrospect writing
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found t... by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
retrospect hours book

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable

Robert James Waller
strange-places retrospect august
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in ret... by Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson
retrospect action life

Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that."

Shakti Gawain
retrospect struggle looks
That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. by Steve Carlton

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

Steve Carlton
retrospect agree past

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

Stephen Hawking
retrospect important thinking

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King
retrospect stupidity two

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

Suketu Mehta
retrospect events shapes

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

Suzanne Collins
fabric retrospect wish
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. by Tana French

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Tana French
noticing retrospect

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

Ted Olson
barbara retrospect mind

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

Wayne Newton
retrospect victim happens

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

William Bolcom
composing retrospect process

In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.

Winona Ryder
retrospect special thinking
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