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From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.


Harry Seidler


#america #available #based #buildings #century

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.


Nate Silver


#election #every #four #new #precedent

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

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.


Debbie Stabenow


#america #bill #control #facing #farm

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.


Roger Staubach


#athletics #comes #cuts #effort #good

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.


Gustav Stresemann


#envy #give #individual #nation #others

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.


Emanuel Swedenborg


#always #destruction #effected #precedes #visitation

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


#because #created #founded #heaven #human

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


#gigantic #like #ones #precedes #proportion

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.


Gwendolyn Brooks


#atmosphere #becomes #blue #blue sky #body






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