“You can only know where you're going if you know where you've been.”
Connections (1979), 9 - Countdown
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Variant: You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Variant: If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.[citation needed]
Variant: You got to be careful if you do not know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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