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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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• Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, White, House

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 Peter and his legitimate successors.

  Pope Pius XI

  Men, Church, Doe

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• The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Columbus, Genocide, Policy

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1983). “Christopher Columbus, Mariner”, Plume

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• I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

  Billy Graham

  Hands, Needs, Generations

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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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• Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

  Dick Cheney

  Running, Negative, Bills

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• War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, War, Men

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Literature, Language

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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

  Knowledge, Tasks, Way

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• (Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

  William James

  Hands, Discovery, People

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.268, Routledge

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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 it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, Jobs

  "Steve Jobs speaks out". archive.fortune.com. March 7, 2008.

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• When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

  Paul Lieberstein

  Office, Settling, Series

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• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Teacher, Teaching, People

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• The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

  Garry Kasparov

  Dream, President, Would Be

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• I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Believe, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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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 not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Beautiful, Running

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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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

  Leader, Risk, Pushing

  John Ralston Saul (2005). “The collapse of globalism: and the reinvention of the world”

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• On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Night, Appreciate, Personality

  Gary Shteyngart (2013). “Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.183, Random House

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