Their Predecessors Quotes

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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 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
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
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
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
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
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. — Stephen Ambrose
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. — Paul Gauguin
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. — Jim Morrison
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood… — Scott Westerfeld
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial… — Mark Levin
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able… — John Jay Hooker
The people who join the mob now are second- and third-generation and don't have the values their predecessors had. — Ronald Goldstock

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