Succession Quotes - Page 11

• Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Inspire, Unbroken

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Race, Play

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Friendship, Flames, Wind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Endless

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• Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
  [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

  Tacitus

  Hate, Power, Next

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• Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Gambling, Play

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• The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

  Maria Montessori

  Growth, Development, Levels

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Regret, Reality

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Children, Believe

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• By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Train Of Thought, Next

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.47, Broadview Press

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• We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Myopic, Logic

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• Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects us to the past, from a perspective of artistic evolution in which the succession of eras and styles gives meaning to creation.

  Raf Simons

  Art, Real, Past

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't feel like I was argued into the faith, but I feel like the evidence knocked down a succession of objections and issues and questions and doubts that I had, that sort of cleared the pathway for me to come to the faith.

  Lee Strobel

  Issues, Doubt, Pathways

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order of succession), it is the change in both the manifest and latent purpose behind the effort.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Order, Effort, Liquid

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very much affected by what was going on in the world, which was, in succession, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the women's movement in the 60s, 70s, and into the early 80s. And all of those things affected me and affected my thinking, particularly the Vietnam War.

  Robert Hass

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Vain

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• I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.

  Paul Kagame

  Names, Long, People

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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• I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to keep up. The thing is, once you hand over the material to the label you have no control over when something comes out - at one point I had whole LPs that were overlapping.

  Ekoplekz

  Hands, People, Labels

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

  Joseph Sobran

  Ideas, Hot, Enthusiasm

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• I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to the business. They were enormous, despite the company's strong market position. I then realized that there were no longer just turn-around periods for companies in trouble, that now variables that could drastically effect any business's profitability were not going to go away.

  Justin Menkes

  Strong, Successful, Going Away

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Space, Said

  Third letter to Samuel Clarke, February 25, 1716.

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• Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

  George Will

  Theory Of Evolution, President, Remember

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.117, Crown Forum

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• Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Opportunity, Life Is, Surviving

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