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He is a logical succession and someone who will do a good job, it will be a very smooth passing of the torch. – John Boris	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Hyundai has not provided a big picture for how it is going to restructure the group as succession looms. I understand that they can't share details, but they should provide several principles, without them there would be rampant speculation in the market. – Park Yoo-kyung	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I heard 'pop, pop,' about 15 times in quick succession. – Jason Palmer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Excellence and succession are built on the foundation of failure. – awesomesauce	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive. – Eugène Ionesco	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. – Lewis Mumford	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. – Josiah Gilbert Holland	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings. – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park	added by anonymous 13 years ago
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. – Sylvia Levi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. – Field Marshall John French	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. – Thornton Wilder	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Bernard Mannes Baruch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. – Josiah Gilbert Holland	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. – Oliver Goldsmith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

He is a logical succession and someone who will do a good job, it will be a very smooth passing of the torch.

– John Boris

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Hyundai has not provided a big picture for how it is going to restructure the group as succession looms. I understand that they can't share details, but they should provide several principles, without them there would be rampant speculation in the market.

– Park Yoo-kyung

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I heard 'pop, pop,' about 15 times in quick succession.

– Jason Palmer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Excellence and succession are built on the foundation of failure.

– awesomesauce

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

– Eugène Ionesco

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

– Lewis Mumford

added by anonymous
10 years ago

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

added by anonymous
13 years ago

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

– Sylvia Levi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

– Field Marshall John French

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

– Thornton Wilder