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• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Long, Mind

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

  Samuel Beckett

  Our Generation, Somewhere Else, Laughing

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Reagan adoptó un enfoque de la Guerra Fría radicalmente distinto al de cualquier otro presidente estadounidense. A saber, pensaba que debíamos ganar. Era un concepto nuevo. En su momento, fue ampliamente ridiculizado como una peligrosa alteración de la política estadounidense. Sólo después de que funcionara, la peligrosa política exterior de Reagan fue presentada como una mera continuación de las políticas de sus predecesores.

  Ann Coulter

  Guerra, Ganar, Presidente

  Ann Coulter (2003). "Traición: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism", p.202, Crown Forum

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• I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

  William Howard Taft

  Peace, Strong, Mean

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

  Madeleine Albright

  Party, America, Ties

  Remarks and Question and Answer Session at the Chamber of Commerce Dinner, 1997-2001.state.gov. June 8, 1997.

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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

  Dream, Moon, America

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• Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

  Mark Bauerlein

  Culture, Today, Youth

  Mark Bauerlein (2008). “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)”, p.9, Penguin

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• The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Ambition, Creative

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• Mis primeros intentos de transmitir el tifus a los animales de laboratorio, incluidas las especies más pequeñas de monos, habían fracasado, al igual que los de mis predecesores, por razones que hoy puedo aducir fácilmente

  Jules Henry

  Animal, Monos, Hoy

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• Entre las diversas súplicas con que se apela con éxito a la Virgen Madre de Dios, ocupa sin duda un lugar especial y distinto el Santo Rosario. Esta oración, que algunos llaman Salterio de la Virgen o Breviario del Evangelio y de la vida cristiana, fue descrita y recomendada por Nuestro Predecesor de feliz memoria, León XIII

  Papa Pío XI

  Christian, Mother, Prayer

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• As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Generations, World

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”

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• Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Medio, Pensamiento, Alas

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• Nunca he sido partidario de los presidentes que echan la culpa a sus predecesores o que aceptan el mérito de acontecimientos que no podían haberse gestado tan pronto en su mandato.

  Kathleen Parker

  President, Events, Fans

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• Hoy me presento ante la organización mundial que ha sucedido al manto desechado por su desacreditado predecesor.

  Haile Selassie

  Organization, World, Today

  Discurso ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, pronunciado el 6 de octubre de 1963

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• The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Team, New Orleans, League

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• Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the teaching of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the apostles, and remaining in the Churches to the present day, is still preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in no respect from ecclesiastical and apostolica tradition.

  Origen

  Teaching, Thinking, Church

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• El Presidente Obama empezó con una economía mucho más débil que la mía. Escúchenme. Ningún presidente -ningún presidente, ni yo, ni ninguno de mis predecesores, nadie podría haber reparado completamente todo el daño que se encontró en solo cuatro años.

  William J. Clinton

  Años, Presidente, Cuatro

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Congress And The President

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• it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Easy, Difficult, Successors

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• To Yelena, our newest food taster. May you last longer than your predecessor.

  Maria V. Snyder

  May, Lasts

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.20, Harlequin

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• Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Stories, World, Forests

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Pretties”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Laughing, Owing, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.827, Random House

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• Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

  Louise Glück

  Loneliness, Heart, Echoes

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• El progreso es la injusticia que cada generación comete con respecto a sus predecesoras.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Progress, Generations, Injustice

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). "El problema de nacer", Viking Books.

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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

  Thinking, Example, Republican

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