In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent:… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged. — J Harlen Bretz Copy Share Image
In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
“Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed.… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the… — J. Bowyer Bell Copy Share Image
The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation… — Stansfield Turner Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
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