#precedes

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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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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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

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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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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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