#precedes

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Existence precedes and rules essence. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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