“ Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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“ We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ Involvement in Vietnam was not — as the critics were later to assert — a conspiracy of the best and brightest brought into government by Kennedy and inherited by Johnson but the application of principles pursued for a decade by two presidents of both parties… ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
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“ I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world. ”
- Jonathan Kellerman- Copy
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“ Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. ”
- Stephen Ambrose- Copy
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“ We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation. ”
- Paddy Ashdown- Copy
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“ No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. ”
- Harold Bloom- Copy
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“ Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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“ The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world. ”
- George Gardner- Copy
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“ Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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