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Tag Name "Precedence" (61)

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Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.
William Lane Craig
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo
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Of all rights which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Horace Mann
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It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, I am one of the equally good ways or I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of truth I am a fragment of the life. Instead, His claim was absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions.
Walter Martin
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It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
James Bovard
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser
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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Jessica Lange
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton
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There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
Agnes Denes
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In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
Kate Morton
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Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
Alex Garland
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Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
Kobe Bryant
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Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
Amy Lowell
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The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.
Marine Le Pen
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When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
Ayn Rand
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A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.
Mark Rippetoe
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I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
Bernard Rudofsky
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If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.
Martin Luther
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In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
David Korten
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Niels Diffrient
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We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
Emilio Estevez
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Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old
Poul Henningsen
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