I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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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
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
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
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy.… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
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
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard 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
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
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor… — Pat Quinn Copy Share Image
Because I'm a younger laureate, it seemed important to me to do something - not to just accept the honor of the… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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