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• 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 manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Hands, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• 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, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

  Plato

  Plato, Parent, Noble

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

  David Mitchell

  Games, Doe, Nero

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• All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Done, May

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.173

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• It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

  James A. Garfield

  Inheritance, Sacred, Privilege

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.792, Best Books on

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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 they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

  Doris Lessing

  Gold, Doe, Matter

  "Lessing honoured for lifetime of writing" by John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

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• 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 and limits the power of its predecessors.

  C. S. Lewis

  Exercise, Thought Provoking, Rebel

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• 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. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

  Ernest Renan

  Jesus, Humanity, Enemy

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.90

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• 'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Mean, Light, Names

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• It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Success, Liberty, Generations

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• The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

  Warren Buffett

  Brother, Thinking, Growth

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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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 his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.

  Wendell Berry

  Grief, Blessing, Men

  Wendell Berry (1978). “The unsettling of America: culture & agriculture”, Random House (NY)

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• Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

  Vincent Price

  Kings, Children, Men

  "Fictional character: The Spirit of the Nightmare". "Alice Cooper: The Nightmare", www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• 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

  Men, Earth, Used

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• Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Men, Giving

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• I am now being criticized (by the opposition) for being irresponsible for saying `I will not raise the consumption tax rate while I am in office,' ... But, when my successor does raise the consumption tax rate, it will not be simply a matter of being irresponsible. He will be criticized for raising the tax.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Office, Doe, Matter

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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 say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Fall, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

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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 of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

  Russell Kirk

  Law, Land, Age

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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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 its successors.

  Tony Hoare

  Improvement, Language, Programming

  "Hints on Programming Language Design", December 1973.

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• Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Trying, Bait, Legacy

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• Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

  Harry Browne

  Giving, Political, Today

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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 back to bullets.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Peaceful, Bullets

  United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Abraham Lincoln (1861). “Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress”, p.16

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• Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

  Walther Rathenau

  Fate, Men, Three

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• When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Hands, Lasts, Program

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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