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• Action takes precedence over study.

  Judah the Prince

  Action, Study

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Drama

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  James Bovard

  Administration, Favors, Conservative

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• Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Past, Giving, Today

  "Humanity Needs a Touch of Magical Interfaith Dialogue" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.

  Karl Marlantes

  Heart, Ego, Survival

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

  David Korten

  Rights, Giving, World

  David C. Korten (2011). “Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.

  Bruce Herschensohn

  Liberty, Cases

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• A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Spiritual, Strong, Reality

  "Starting Strength". Book by Mark Rippetoe, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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• The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Editing, Requirements, Film

  Edward Dmytryk (2012). “On Film Editing”, p.46, CRC Press

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• The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Rose, Lilies, Faces

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• Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

  John Milton

  Teaching, England, Forget

  'The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce' (1643) 'To the Parliament of England'

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• What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

  Edward de Bono

  Important, Urgent

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Future Positive”, p.196, Random House

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• The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Teacher, Intellectual

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• In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Over You

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

  Agnes Denes

  Philosopher, Precedent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in time or superiority in nature of the Father over the Son (cf. Jn. 14:28)? or superiority in any other respect save causation. And we mean by this, that the Son is begotten of the Father and not the Father of the Son, and that the Father naturally is the cause of the Son.

  Pope Clement I

  Christian, Father, Mean

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• Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Emotion, Tendencies

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Needs, Quests, Inspired

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.31, HMH

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• Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

  Robert E. Howard

  Civilization, Mazes, Customs

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.95, Del Rey

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• Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Football, Golf

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• The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Law, Immigration

  Source: www.eunews.it

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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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