#precedent

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

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

— Will Durant

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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

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What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#culture #degree #developed #disney #empire

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it. ↗

— Owen Hart

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The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. ↗

— Perry Christie

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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. ↗

— Greg Walden

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