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- Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to… — Buzz Aldrin
- I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. — Martin Van Buren
- It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither,… — John F. Kennedy
- Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for… — Abraham Lincoln
- Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that… — Charles Babbage
- Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by… — Ernest Starling
- Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and… — Pope Benedict XVI
- To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. — Baltasar Gracian
- 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
- I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert
- Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a… — Pope Pius XI