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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.
What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.
[Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession.
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.
My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together.
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.
Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.
WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.
