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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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• 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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• 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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• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

  Tacitus

  Law, Found, Admirable

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Criminals, Matter, Authority

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• We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mass Extinction, Climate, Events

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

  Graham Coxon

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Interview with Alex McCann, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

  James Madison

  Self, Germs, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.219

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• The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

  James Madison

  Growing Up, People, Evil

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• The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Giving, Historical

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish...that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more'. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?

  Anthony Hopkins

  Morning, Memories, Night

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• Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

  George H. W. Bush

  Land, Iraq, Invasion

  "A World Transformed". Book by George H. W. Bush, September 14, 1998.

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• Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, Office, President

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• Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

  Ian Fleming

  Writing

  "TV highlights 12/02/2014" by Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, Rachel Aroesti, David Stubbs, Luke Holland, Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2014.

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• Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Mean, Political

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• The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Law, Presidential

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• From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

  Harry Seidler

  America, Migration, Abundance

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• The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, . . . There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.

  Lawrence Stone

  Unique, Years, Historical

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• We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Impact, Years, Decision

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• In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Nike, Games, Jordan

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

  Drew Magary

  Jobs, Responsibility, Progress

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  History, Political, Way

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• You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

  Richard Grossman

  Law, Class, Community

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