#recede

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

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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

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#coming #evidently #may #recede #single

No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#been #established #general #however #law

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#attended #church #decision #each #eternal

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#does #follows #precede #simplicity

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#arms #insurrection #precedes #thought

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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