#precede

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#apostle #bear #comes #death #easier

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#also #am #case #conscious #great

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.' ↗

— Mike Wallace

#cbs #cbs news #good #good luck #good night

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. ↗

— Tom Hicks

#approach #awhile #every #last #nickel

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #goodness #great #history #over

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#being #function #precedes #recognition

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#current #era #helping #historical #history

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase