Best Succession Words
227 Succession quotes by 196 unique authors
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
— Jack Kornfield
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All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into…
— John Drinkwater
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We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the…
— Henry L. Stimson
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,…
— George Perkins Marsh
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There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over…
— Alan Bennett
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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche…
— Frantz Fanon
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that…
— Idries Shah
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My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not…
— Bernard Stiegler
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In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
— William Shakespeare
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The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered,…
— Natalia Ginzburg
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The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
— Jacques Barzun
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But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on…
— Robert Benchley
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The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again,…
— Milan Kundera
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever…
— Giordano Bruno
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I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
— John Nelson Darby
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Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
— Theodor Adorno
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Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
— Roman Jakobson
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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.
— Frederick Lenz
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What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When…
— Frederick Lenz
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