#recede

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

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

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

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#boom #defeating #duration #generation #long

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true. ↗

— Don Henley

#forget #get #head #melody #notes