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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Bravery, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

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• Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Psychedelic, Involvement

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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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• Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Light, World

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1868). “History of Civilization in England”, p.349

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• It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, Impact, Community

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• The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Kings, Thinking, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  Truth, Twilight, Perfect Days

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• I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

  Bobby Keys

  Temptation, Littles

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• In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

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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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