Successors Quotes

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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. — Paul Cezanne
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
I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters… — Pope Benedict XVI
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific… — Norman Lockyer
I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual… — Thomas Jefferson
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They… — Pope Leo XIII
Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and… — Margaret Beckett
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds. — Charles Krauthammer
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it.… — Ernest Renan
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
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour,… — Plato
Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors. — Harry Browne
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of… — Pope Pius XI
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. — Samuel Eliot Morison
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the… — Margaret Thatcher
I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my… — Jean Moulin
If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not… — Pope Boniface VIII
Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors. — C. D. Darlington
He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well… — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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