Predecessors Quotes

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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. — George W. Bush
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no… — William J. Clinton
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us… — John Garamendi
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm… — Pope John Paul II
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the… — Origen
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than… — Madeleine Albright
Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a… — Ann Coulter
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists… — C.S. Lewis
Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth… — Mark Bauerlein
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not… — Milan Kundera
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons… — Jules Henry
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values… — Pope Leo XIII
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. — Paul Cezanne

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