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• The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

  William Kristol

  Average, Giving, Presidential

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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

  Jobs, Hard Work, Challenges

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. November 21, 2003.

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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

  Jobs, Moving, Loss

  "DNC 2012: Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s Speech". www.washingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  Ma Ying-jeou

  Believe, Leader, Understanding

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• The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Chemicals, Century, Projects

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• The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Mistake, Past

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• Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic.

  Kenneth Clark

  Passion, Animal, Expression

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• Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Fall, Interesting

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.

  Ted Gup

  War, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Artist, Maturity

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.275

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• We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Money, Reality, Government

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

  Don Baylor

  Baseball, New York, Father

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• The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.

  James A. Garfield

  Money, Blessing, People

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• We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mistake, Blessing, Growing

  "Hebron Is Jerusalem's Sister" by Sdeh Boker, Hebron.com, January 25, 1970.

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• Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.

  Laura Riding

  Religious, Reality, Perfection

  "Poetic Drama". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights.  Of their freedom.  Of their dignity.  Of their futures.  The culprits?  My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Rights, People, Today

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• The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Tasks, Figures

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 114, 1988.

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• I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

  Shinzo Abe

  Suffering, Stronger, Trouble

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• In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Men, Common Purpose, Goal

  "The Social Function of Science". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1939.

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• Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wrath, Tonight, Gang

  Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Perley Poore (1868). “Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors”, p.326

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• Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Hands, Guy

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  Past, People, Meaning Of Life

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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• Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Father, Moving

  Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee

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