#precedent

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#development #full #given #glory #history

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. ↗

— Bono

#africa #dignity #equality #facing #here

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#demonstration #dramatic #experienced #failure #history

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#built #connected #everyone #focus #future

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#built #connected #everyone #focus #future

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#beyond #democrats #discourse #goes #hate

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#except #fiction #history #human #humans

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranger #author #career #directions #give

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ↗

— Will Durant

#begins #broken #custom #every #minority