Successors Quotes - Page 7

• The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Unions, States

  "Interview of President Vladimir V.Putin to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, m.rusemb.org.uk.

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• Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Practice, Important

  David Galenson (2006). “Artistic Capital”, p.87, Routledge

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• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Optimistic, America

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, President, Nuclear

  Source: time.com

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• The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor, or certainly needs - you could say - a son. So The Ancient One is really invested in Doctor Strange, it's a very kind of primal relationship.

  Tilda Swinton

  Son, Cutting, Doctors

  "‘Doctor Strange’ Interview: Tilda Swinton Talks About Her Transformation Into The Ancient One". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.

  Elliott Sober

  Skulls, Order, Confusing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Green, Littles

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

  George W. Bush

  Want, Presidency, Interfere

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.

  Bob Hawke

  Tragedy, President, Hopeless

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• President Obama, don't you think you should follow in the footsteps of your predecessor? Remember, President George W. Bush? He stayed out of the political arena, and he let you, his successor, do your job.

  Sean Hannity

  Jobs, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

  Garry Kasparov

  Government, Unions, Election

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.

  Masayoshi Son

  Fun, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

  Satoru Iwata

  Playing Games, Accessories, Wii

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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, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

  George Orwell

  Father, Son, Persistence

  "1984".

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• Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stand Alone, Presidents Day, Type

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.675, Library of Alexandria

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• His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Effort, Enemy

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• All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Eye, Air, Research

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• The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Impact, Messages

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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

  Fate, Ideas, Mind

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Used, Predecessors

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• Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Country, Jobs, Fall

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

  Karen Mills

  Years, President, Transition

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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. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.

  Walther Rathenau

  Destiny, Men, Light

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• One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Support

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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