Best Successors Quotes
60 Successors quotes by 56 unique authors
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision…
— Russell Kirk
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and…
— Wendell Berry
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If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same…
— Gregory Palamas
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The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling…
— George Orwell
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When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to…
— Donald Knuth
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Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations.…
— Walther Rathenau
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Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
— Samuel Johnson
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
— John Ralston Saul
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There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are…
— Albert Einstein
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When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.
— Paul Lieberstein
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I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think…
— Steve Jobs
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The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians…
— Simone Weil
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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and…
— George Will
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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work…
— Dodie Smith
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Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took…
— Boris Pasternak
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