#recede

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#came #computers #earth #elements #forget

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#another #aspect #because #composing #ever

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#combines #hand #higher #historical #ideal

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment. ↗

— Judith Ellen Foster

#creation #dominant #follow #party #popular

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#cannot #carry #economy #forever #fund

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

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. ↗

— David Korten

#give #human #human rights #increasing #inequality

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#facts #may #principles #proceed #recede

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. ↗

— Sean Penn

#american soldiers #attack #civilians #innocent #innocent civilians

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right. ↗

— John Avlon

#calling #comparing #him #hitler #important