#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

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

— Will Durant

#begins #broken #custom #every #minority

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#documenting #era #i #living #part

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

— Karl Liebknecht

#cause #degree #more #proletariat #revolution

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#basis #build #coalition #doctrine #embraced

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#google #important #important things #internet #lawsuits

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#any #blessed #designed #done #economic

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period. ↗

— David Gill

#day #dictated #eight #genuine #genuinely