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  • Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

  • You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.

    Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK
  • The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

    Edward Dmytryk (2012). “On Film Editing”, p.46, CRC Press
  • There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

    Funny   Jobs   Learning  
  • There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

    Destiny   Giving   Matter  
  • There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

    Two   World   Unschooling  
    George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK
  • That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.

    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.
  • In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

  • The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

  • Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

  • The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

    Beauty   Men   Firsts  
  • In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.

  • Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

    FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 14, 2013
  • In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

    Lying   Heart   Dark  
    Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
  • What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

    Edward de Bono (2017). “Future Positive”, p.196, Random House
  • Education must precede motivation.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2017
  • Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

    "Comedian Irwin Corey, 'The World's Foremost Authority,' Dies at 102" by Mike Miller, people.com. February 7, 2017.
  • Soul development should take precedence over all things.

  • People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  • Action takes precedence over study.

  • I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

  • In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

    Eye   Men   Rocks  
    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage
  • At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing.

    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

  • The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others

    Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”
  • 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.

    Giving   Envy   Together  
  • People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

    People   Lines   Hens  
  • The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  • There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

    The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.
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