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


Junius


#another #constitute #creates #doctrine #fact

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

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


#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

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

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.


Mark Zuckerberg


#built #connected #everyone #focus #future

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

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 type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.


Bill McCartney


#christ #christians #come #distinctions #gathering

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






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