#predecessors

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

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I always see other people as predecessors and admire them. ↗

— Judd Apatow

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

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President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages. ↗

— Frank Black

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To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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