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You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer /
Shoulders
Predecessor
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Baltasar Gracian / Writer
Equal
Imitation
Predecessors
Twice
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I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Predecessors
Successors
Used
Neither
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Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.
Gutzon Borglum / Artist
Civilization
Each
Forgets
Predecessor
Succeeding
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For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
John Podhoretz / Writer
Example
Republican
Thinking
Unlikely
Obama
Richard
Himself
Nixon
Predecessor
Richard Nixon
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th U.s. President
Trust
Men
Footsteps
Patriotic
People
Receiving
Sacred
Confided
Illustrious
Predecessor
Tread
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It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Frightening
Labour
Labour Party
Minister
Predecessor
Tories
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While 'Final Fantasy XIII-2' does quite a bit to fix the mistakes of its predecessor, it does very little to stand out on its own merits.
Jason Schreier /
Merits
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Quite A Bit
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One of the biggest challenges for any new administration is contending with its predecessor's priorities and beginning to advance its own.
Eugene Scalia /
Contending
Advance
Biggest Challenges
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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
Emile Durkheim / Sociologist
Latter
Movement
New Generation
Order
New
Circular
New Generation New Generation
Each
Generation
Must
Improve
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Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad / Dj
Harsh
Separation
Creates
Gap
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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 / Psychologist
Jobs
Challenges
Hard Work
Harder
Work Myself World
However
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Repeating
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A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.
Richard Flanagan / Novelist
Abandon
Climate Change
Emissions
Julia
Nevertheless
Prime Minister
Trading
Change Believe Climate
Advised
Scheme
Minister
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I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.
David Dinkins / Former Mayor Of New York City
Confident
Immediate
Mayor
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Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
Severo Ochoa /
Native
Spain
Cultural
Deeply
Influenced
Owe
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Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.
Richard N. Haass / Diplomat
Force
Military
Military Force
Rejected
Trump
Authorized
Donald
Manner
Predecessor
Syrian
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We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.
Chris Christie / Governor Of New Jersey
Income
Income Tax
My Time
Regulation
Tax Increases
Billion
Governor
One-Third
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The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and they haven't killed us yet.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell /
Magnetic
Emerged
Homo
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Quarter
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In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Garage
Gershwin
Tunes
All-Star
Musicals
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We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.
Louise Glück / Poet
Appetite
Disturbing
Ideas
Novelty
Seems
Unfolding
Me New Ideas
Cultural
Laureate
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
F. W. De Klerk /
Evolve
Achieved
Cabinet
Circle
Discussions
Inner
Policies
Predecessor
Preferred
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Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.
Jeffrey Skilling /
Enron
Former
Wholesale
Consultant
Joined
Merchant
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A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and President Obama's short-lived 'surge' in 2009 was a continuation of his predecessor's buildup there.
Michael Hayden /
Afghanistan
Continuation
October
Short Lived
Significant
Surge
Predecessor
Presence
Troop
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In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
Tariq Ali / Writer
Cuban
Embargo
Moscow
President Kennedy
Earlier
Eisenhower
Further
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President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.
Nigel Hamilton / Biographer
Carter
Iran
Jimmy
Return
Pardoned
Ford
Hostages
Jimmy Carter
Predecessor
Ride
Successor
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Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
Buzz Aldrin / Astronaut
Dream
Leadership
America
Apollo
Broken
Moon
Prove
Restoring
Spacecraft
Dead
Dead End
Littered
Policies
Predecessor
To The Moon
Visionary
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Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.
Donald Sinden / Actor
Believer
Belonging
Touching
Great Always Me
Great Believer
Henry
Illustrious
Predecessor
Sarah
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Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.
Ronan Farrow / Activist
Austerity
Cry
Entertaining
Humility
Policy
Pope
Shoes
Stressed
According
Francis
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Translating
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I got my break in the business with the now-defunct Bill Watts' TWF, the old Mid-South. Which was really, in many ways, the predecessor to ECW in its time, in that age. It was a really cool, high-impact, snug type of product.
Shane Douglas /
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In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
Noah Feldman / Author
War
Korea
President
Ruins
South
South Korea
Uneasy
Unpopular
Deeply
Eager
Eisenhower
Ended
Lay
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
Martin O'malley / Governor Of Maryland
Depression
Jobs
Bigger
Deeper
Economy
Great Depression
Loss
Moving
President Obama
Obama
Forward
Inherited
Job Losses
Losses
Predecessor
Roosevelt
Worse
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th U.s. President
Equal
People
Receiving
Sacred
Tasks
Twice
Arduous
Perform
Confided
Expect
Faithfully
Illustrious
Predecessor
Task
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Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, heavy-handedly provoked South American governments on any number of issues, including a rush to endorse the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela, which only worked to steel resistance and build solidarity.
Greg Grandin /
Provoked
Resistance
Solidarity
Steel
Venezuela
Attempt
Coup
Endorse
George W
George W. Bush
Governments
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Rush
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ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.
Michael Hayden /
Alexander
Chose
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When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.
Troy Duffy / Film Director
Down And
Sacred
Writing
Deemed
Predecessor
Sequel
Tread
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I think I was always so resistant to coloring my hair because, you know, when my dad was still alive, it's so easy for a second- or third-generation wrestler to just copy their predecessor. The hardest thing you can do is try and carve out your own legacy.
Cody Rhodes / Professional Wrestler
Dad
Alive
Easy
Hardest Thing
Legacy
Wrestler
Carve
Coloring
Copy
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Resistant
Second
The Hardest Thing
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
Rachel Cusk / Novelist
Children
Connections
Memoir
Method
Processing
Risk
Writing
Aesthetically
Exists
Model
Material
No Sense
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Strictly
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Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge - come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it's bigger than its predecessor.
Peter York / Author
Bigger
Busy
Concerned
Rational
Trading
Bet
Fridge
Predecessor
Recently
Socially
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Obama's openness is a welcome change from his predecessor, who went all the way to the Supreme Court to hide the RSVP list for a single policy meeting. And transparency is intrinsically good, since in a democracy, very little government activity is legitimately secret.
Ari Melber /
Activity
Court
Democracy
Openness
Policy
Secret
Supreme
Supreme Court
Transparency
Welcome
Obama
Hide
List
Meeting
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
Ramez Naam / Manager
China
Electrical
Engineering
President
Rulers
Among
Chemical
Degree
Earned
Held
Predecessor
Preponderance
Scientists
Trained
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Sarah Palin / Former Governor Of Alaska
Foreign Policy
Last Year
Observation
Office
Personality
Years
Foreign
John
Lesson
Note
Predecessor
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Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without controlling his successor or at least receiving an exemption from prosecution - something Mr. Putin granted his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in 1999.
Simon Sebag-Montefiore / Journalist
Exemption
Granted
Patronage
Prosecution
Putin
Receiving
Russia
Controlling
Feudal
Predecessor
Reward
Successor
Virtually
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The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL.
Peter T. King /
Al Qaeda
Arrested
Conspiracy
Danger
Flawed
Refugee
Abroad
Experienced
Predecessor
Refugees
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One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic - and, in some ways, as a figure, at least within the academy - Williams was what England had in the generation after Orwell, and toward the end of his life, he became more critical of his predecessor.
Keith Gessen / Novelist
Academy
England
Socialist
Critic
Literary
Figure
Generation
Orwell
Predecessor
Raymond
Toward
Williams
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In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. /
Burial
Healthcare
Syphilis
Offered
Predecessor
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Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a former mayor, so much as hinted to the mayor's successor that, say, highway funds would be restricted unless the current mayor were to announce an inquiry into her predecessor's alleged corruption.
George T. Conway Iii /
Attorney
Corruption
Former
Inquiry
Alleged
Announce
Current
Funds
Governor
Highway
Investigate
Mayor
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Restricted
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