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• I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

  Rand Paul

  War, Thinking, President

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. March 30, 2011.

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• What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?

  Hannah

  Ghana, Leader, Movement

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• It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

  Arnold Friberg

  Book, Tasks, Levels

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• This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked.

  Jim Stanford

  Car, Foundation, Wages

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Kings, Powerful, Mean

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.225, Harvard University Press

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• I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his successes and advantages for Russia historians shall absolutely note the fact of his not altering the constitution, for he created a precedent. And afterwards, no matter who might become president, it shall be extremely difficult to alter the constitution exactly on that point. Extremely difficult.

  Vladimir Posner

  Russia, Doubt, President

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• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Procrastination, Next Day

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• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Borders, Looks

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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hate, Ideas, Paris

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• All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Party, Law, Congress

  Hearings, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

  Irvine Welsh

  Behaviour, Realizing, Recognise

  Irvine Welsh (1997). “Marabou Stork Nightmares”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.

  Steven Johnson

  Practice, Water, Intellectual

  Steven Johnson (2006). “The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World”, p.146, Penguin

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• But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Learning, Men, Judging

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.158, Penguin

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• The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

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• You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Rewards, Settings

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.583, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Pain, Giving Up

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Facts, Sides

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• To support its conclusion that 'this is a religious people... this is a Christian nation,' the Court paraded a veritable litany of precedents from American history: taken from Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S.; 143 U.S. 457-458 (1892).

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong, Teaching, Acceptance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.3972, e-artnow

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• A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Mind, Causes

  David Hume (2017). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.238, BookRix

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• One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  New York, Ornaments, Building

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• The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.

  Bill Bright

  Christian, Religious, Liberty

  Bill Bright, Ron Jenson (1986). “Kingdoms at war”

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• I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Art, Eye, Want

  "Woman in design: Annabelle Selldorf". Elle Decor Interview, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.

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• All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Waiting, Pay

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  Owen Hart

  Kind, Belts

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