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precedence
«The earth upon which the sea, and the rivers and the waters, upon which food and the tribes of men have arisen, upon which this breathing, moving life exists, shall afford us precedence in drinking!»
Author: Atharva Veda
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afford, arisen, breathing, drinking, precedence, rivers, tribes, waters
«For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.»
«The leader should abstain from evil tendencies because they would be showing bad precedence to their followers-which is more harmful. »
«The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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individuals, Individual right, individual rights, interest, interests, precedence, private, private interest, public, public interest, rights, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Public Interest
«An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, customers, Englishman, fights, Irishman, Order of, precedence, Scotchman, Scotchmen, The Order
«What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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arabesque, by ear, precedence, unperceived