#recedes

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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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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Existence precedes and rules essence. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

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