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• People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  People, Lines, Hens

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• What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Men, Might

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.269

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• I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. 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, Thinking, Judging

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, p. 36, 1994.

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• We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

  Emilio Estevez

  Technology, Elements, Earth

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Real, Leader

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

  Bernard Rudofsky

  Art, Believe, Intellectual

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• this was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her

  Grace Coolidge

  Wife, President, United States

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• There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

  George Carlin

  Two, World, Unschooling

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• The main reason for insisting on the universal Flood as a fact of history and as the primary vehicle for geological interpretation is that God's Word plainly teaches it! No geologic difficulties, real or imagined, can be allowed to take precedence over the clear statements and necessary inferences of Scripture.

  Henry M. Morris

  Real, Scripture, Facts

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• It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of truth; I am a fragment of the life." Instead, His claim was absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions.

  Walter Martin

  Jesus, Men, Way

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• Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

  Whitney Houston

  Heart, Problem, Reason

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• Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

  Irwin Corey

  Today, Procedures, Protocol

  "Comedian Irwin Corey, 'The World's Foremost Authority,' Dies at 102" by Mike Miller, people.com. February 7, 2017.

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• That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.

  Daniel Clowes

  Character, Years, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We have a lot of precedence for that; we've done that in the past. Or maybe that you want to sort of put that behind you. I don't know, that's - that's a tough decision [ seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton].

  Rudy Giuliani

  Past, Decision, Special

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to.  It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

  Randy Gage

  Destiny, Giving, Matter

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• Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

  Niels Diffrient

  Today, Telephones, Terrorism

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• With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

  Laozi

  Shrinking, Economy, Honour

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.67, Booklassic

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• The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Law

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.127, Univ of California Press

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• People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live up to the utopia they were sold. It has distanced itself significantly from a democratic mode of operation.

  Marine Le Pen

  Law, People, Doe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Desire

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.30, Broadway Books

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• Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old

  Poul Henningsen

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• There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  New York, Cities, Government

  The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.

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• Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.

  Stanley Elkin

  Religious, Philosophy, Self

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• In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.
  Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.
  Feeling is frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Feelings, Mind, Pathways

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

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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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