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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
Generation
Understanding
Believe
More
Taiwan
He
Leaders
Sophisticated
Ideological
Pragmatic
His
Than
Represents
Predecessors
Different
Much
Less
Many
I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.
Masahiro Sakurai
Wisdom
Home
Me
Think
Way
Those
Out
Find
Thousands
More
Like
Lot
Up
Ended
Being
Predecessors
Literally
Informative
Interesting
Them
Games
Play
Pearls
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, like his most recent predecessors Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak, rarely mention the Sinai Peninsula other than to celebrate its liberation from Israeli occupation in 1982.
Mona Eltahawy
Celebrate
Other
President
Liberation
Peninsula
Rarely
Mention
Like
Most
Occupation
Israeli
His
Than
Predecessors
Mubarak
Recent
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
P. F. Strawson
Thought
Own
Philosopher
He
Contemporary
Until
Terms
Understands
His
Predecessors
One of the pleasing things about science is that we do all climb towards the heavens on the shoulders of our predecessors. Economics, like physics, has its heroes, and the letter 'H' that I used in my mathematical equations was not there to honor Sir William Hamilton, but rather Harold Hotelling.
Paul Samuelson
Science
Physics
Heroes
Honor
Economics
Our
Harold
Pleasing
William
About
Rather
Towards
Like
Equations
Climb
Hamilton
Mathematical
Sir
Heavens
Predecessors
Shoulders
Used
Letter
Things
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Communicate
Speak
Employees
Increasingly
Corporate
Unlike
Able
Executives
Coming
Expect
Predecessors
Japan
Japanese
English
Who
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
Renny Harlin
Time
You
Experience
Imagination
Type
Some
About
Something
Individuality
Talent
Liked
Obviously
Because
Audience
Truthful
Replicate
Same
Same Time
Predecessors
Want
Them
Certain
Certain Extent
Shows
Extent
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Project
Had
Instruments
Chemical
Were
Same
Predecessors
Necessary
I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.
Stephen A. Smith
Time
Long
Long Time
On And Off
Criticizing
Record
Someone
Bryan
He
Over
League
Contemporaries
Known
Covered
His
Off
Decades
Goes
Predecessors
Who
Two
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
Stephen Ambrose
Today
Presidents
Throw
Like
Up
Hands
Just
Predecessors
Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.
Theodore William Richards
Journey
Travel
Science
Before
Every
Way
Run
More
Could
Beaten
Student
He
Clearing
Track
Himself
Becomes
Least
Were
His
Off
Left
Forest
Pioneer
Quickly
Than
Predecessors
Where
Cannot
While
Race
Even
Start
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.
Tina Brown
Theatre
Big
Unlike
Obama
Masterpiece
His
Predecessors
Nostalgia
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
Vince Cable
Property
People
Financial
Other
Our
Dangerously
Financial Crisis
Sector
Crisis
More
Exceptionally
Bubble
Major
Economy
Global
Course
Masters
Vulnerable
Bloated
Left
Debt
Than
Labour
Personal
Behaving
Any
Inflated
Banking
Predecessors
Servants
Britain
Damaged
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
Me
President
President Obama
Weaker
Obama
Could
No-One
He
Economy
Years
Than
Did
Any
Listen
Just
Predecessors
Much
Fully
Found
Now
Four
Started
Damage
Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.
Charlie Baker
Me
Inspiring
Students
Talented
Massachusetts
Doing
Educators
Did
Predecessors
Across
Many
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