#precede

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

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Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. ↗

— Junius

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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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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

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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

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