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All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Do Less. Be More. — Elizabeth Grace Saunders

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. — Douglas Coupland

the most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale. — Cory Doctorow

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. — Stewart Brand

Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents. — Eminem

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. — William Cowper

Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to. — Jerry Seinfeld

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents. — C.V. Wedgwood

Nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Stability means respecting precedents. — Arlen Specter

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay, — Joseph Estrada

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join. — Michelle Malkin

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I live by the mantra - Be Real. Be Authentic. Be You! — M.H. Johnson

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. — Tacitus

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. — Claude Debussy

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. — Henry David Thoreau

Precedents once established are so much positive power. — James Madison

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard

[I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. — Sarah Vowell

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience. — Bill Nighy

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity. — Thomas Paine

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent. — Tacitus

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. — Belva Lockwood