#precedes

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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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

#literature #precedes

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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