#recedes

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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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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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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