Top Precedent Quotes
As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.
Kenneth Noland
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
Brian Ferneyhough
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Herbert Croly
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
William Robertson Smith
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As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.
Kenneth Noland 
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In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
Brian Ferneyhough
54% of people like this quote
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Herbert Croly
53% of people like this quote
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
William Robertson Smith
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
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As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
Greg Walden
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