#recede

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? ↗

— William Greider

#continue #country #determinism #financial #gain

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

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#far #must #pain #persevere #precede

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#future #over #past #precedence #rather

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 mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#cannot #comparisons #examine #existence #formed

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#cannot #fooled #must #nature #over

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

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

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#follow #lust #morality #precede #prefers