“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,
And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”
Philip Massinger The Maid of Honour
The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i.
“When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet”
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Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
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