Predecessors Quotes

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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake… — Horace Mann
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with… — Margaret Thatcher
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so… — Kathleen Parker
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. — Alexander Herzen
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and… — Benjamin E. Mays
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets… — Robert B. Laughlin
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ...… — Gordon Bethune
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be… — William Faulkner
Every work of art changes its predecessors. — Mason Cooley
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the… — Eric Voegelin
Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as… — Albert Einstein
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little… — Samuel Johnson
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees… — Stephen F. Hayes
It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will,… — Michael N. Castle
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all… — Tony Hoare
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors… — Mohammed Omar

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