#precede

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

#better #error #first #go #last

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

#conduct #drawn #ground #hereafter #i

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#best #films #good #just #make

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#certain actors #had #honored #i #idolatry

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it. ↗

— Owen Hart

#canadian #ever #held #i #kind

Strong convictions precede great actions. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#actions #convictions #great #precede #strong

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

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#bit #blur #by the time #came #daughter

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