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«Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific»
Author: John Norton
| Keywords:
afflicting, English people, flabby, flatulent, Georges, ignoble, posterity, prolific, Queen Victoria, remembrance, royal, scion, successor, Victoria
«The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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arbitrary, enlightened, imperceptibly, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, respecting, serving, successor, surest
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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nominate, nominated, nominating, successor, vacancies, vacancy
«Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.»
«Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
A.D., expired, inconsolable, interred, lethargy, lingering, occasioned, sank, successor, third-year, thirty-third
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ideology, impact, successor
«The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
Hero of, idol, in turn, recollection, successor, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants
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