#precedence

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work. ↗

— Lexa Doig

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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#being #ever #having #home #me

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. ↗

— John Milton

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? ↗

— William Greider

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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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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

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