#precede

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#case #choice #difficult #even #expression

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#before #being #being done #censor #difficult

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #face #follows #just #like

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#get #give #i #i think #like

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#doubt #over #second #second world war #since

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#beyond #borders #country #courts #historically

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#airlines #course #damage #goods #injury

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court