#eden

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#brought #forward #founded #itself #past

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. ↗

— Greg Walden

#energy #federal #lawmakers #practices #precedent

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#based #comedies #different #experience #experiences

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next? ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#against #back #came #catholic #catholics

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#google #important #important things #internet #lawsuits

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#asked #come #concert #first #i

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#am #britain #brutally #determined #honest

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #aware #body #credence #fancy

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#back #boring #dog #doing #eden

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings