Precedence Quotes

• Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

  Nick Cave

  Australia Day, Happened, Australian

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• It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

  Howard Carter

  Sight, Vision, Precedent

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• In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

  Hiroyuki Asada

  Heart, All Things

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• Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Religious, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 14, 2013

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• There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

  William Glasser

  Funny, Jobs, Learning

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• The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
  other efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Priorities, Effort

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

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• Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Depression, Fun, Business

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• All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Christian, Perseverance, Religious

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Education must precede motivation.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2017

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• Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Justice

  Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

  Herman Kahn

  Healthy, Resources, Should

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.34, Lexington Books

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• An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.188

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• When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.19, Penguin

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• If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Over You, Academic

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• The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others

  Morton Feldman

  Interesting, Patterns, Procedures

  Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”

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• Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Religion, Fundamentals

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics" by William Lane Craig, Revised ed., Wheaton, IL: Crossway, (p. 36), 1994.

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• Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

  Stewart Udall

  Men, Needs, Modern

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• Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pits, Prophet

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Technology, Machines, Use

  Thorstein Veblen (2005). “The Theory of Business Enterprise”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

  John F. Kennedy

  Presidential, Atheism, Church

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• One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Humility, Pride

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• In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Spiritual, Science, Perception

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Struggle, Animal, Clothes

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• What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Writing, Eye

  "The Difficulty of Being". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1947.

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