Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability… — Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your… — Don Baylor Copy Share Image
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares,… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
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