“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)
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