Precursor Quotes

• We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

  Greg Walden

  Poison, Use, Flow

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Vocabulary, Rivalry, Connotation

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Thinking, Reality, Dawn

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1167, Aum Publications

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• While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

  Tim Holden

  Children, Government, Suffering

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• Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without proper soccer training a player will never reach his full potential. It is true that great speed would benefit someone who plays as a winger but would not be as useful for a goalkeeper. The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.

  Pele

  Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball

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• The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Lasts, Revolution, Bigger

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• A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

  William C. Brown

  Enzymes, Facts, Doe

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• Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

  Ron Paul

  Country, War, Pay

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• I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

  Jim Shaw

  Neurosis, Aspergers, Schizophrenia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pain is the precursor to change.

  Mel Gibson

  Change, Pain

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Reality, Desire, Anticipation

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

  Esther Williams

  Girl, Sports, Issues

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• It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins

  Samuel Pepys

  Pain, Night, Wind

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.397, Univ of California Press

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• At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

  Chris Kyle

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Nuclear

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• I certainly do not consider myself the next Jesus. I'd say he was more of a precursor to Zach Braff.

  Zach Braff

  Jesus, Next

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• Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

  Bryan Kest

  Relationship, Patience, Gratitude

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• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  Edgar Winter

  Love, Running, Common Threads

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• In those days, I did what was necessary for me to win. This included training with heavy weights: a precursor for injury. So if I could do it over again I’d train with lighter weights, higher reps, no sets below 10 reps, with negatives slower than positives, and avoid injury. If I had done that, my physique wouldn’t have been quite as bulky, but with more definition and with less pain.

  Frank Zane

  Pain, Winning, Training

  "The Legend of Frank Zane: An Interview With The Man Who Achieved Physical Perfection". "Flex" Interview, www.simplyshredded.com. August 2008.

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• At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Different Universes, Next

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• Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

  Thales

  Good Life, Ruins, Dogma

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• Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Past, Polemics

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

  John Denver

  Struggle, Deep Love, Light

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• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  Buck Brannaman

  Dirty, Punishment, Discipline

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• I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

  John Connolly

  Reading, Thinking, Views

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Home, Empires, Ruins

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