#precedes

Existence precedes and rules essence. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #precedes #rules

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#apostle #bear #comes #death #easier

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#belief #cooperation #educational #factor #friendship

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

#because #face #follows #just #like

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

#always #eye #generation #genius #intellect

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#being #function #precedes #recognition

Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

#literature #precedes

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#arms #insurrection #precedes #thought