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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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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

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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

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For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

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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

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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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