quotes about Precedent
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There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
-- Agnes Denes -
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
-- Agnes DenesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
-- Belva Ann LockwoodSource : Speech to National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association,Washington, D.C., 16 - 17 Jan. 1877
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The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
-- Claude Debussy -
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
-- Gary Hamel -
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Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
-- Glen CookSource : Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.55, Macmillan
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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
-- Howard Carter -
Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
-- Ian FlemingSource : "TV highlights 12/02/2014" by Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, Rachel Aroesti, David Stubbs, Luke Holland, Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2014.
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It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.
-- Irvine Welsh -
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I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
-- John F. Kennedy -
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
-- Madame de Stael -
Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.
-- Michael Hyatt -
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
-- Nikola Tesla -
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
-- Owen Hart