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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about police, rightness

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Quote by Joseph Addison about love

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about nation, peace

If Don Giovanni does not possess low notes rich enough, then the balance is broken, and, as a consequence, all the work that preceded falls to pieces.

Quote by Placido Domingo about consequences, wealth, work

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

Quote by Owen Hart about prison

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Quote by Thomas Paine about liberty, duty, enemies

During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about opinion, progress

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about people, human imperfections, man