There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the… — Walt Mossberg 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
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
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode… — Anonymous 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
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
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
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his… — Vladimir Posner Copy Share Image
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone… — Lois Lerner Copy Share Image
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers… — Nancy Keenan Copy Share Image
Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression… — George H. W. Bush 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
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
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
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
As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for… — Gary Hamel 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
In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it,… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a… — Simone Weil 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
A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they… — Rachel Maddow 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
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake… — Tiberius 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
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent,… — Harry Seidler 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
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
As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for… — Kenneth Noland Copy Share Image
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
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