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Quotes About Prior

La meta es el olvido.Yo he llegado antes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Yet while the Trump administration's record has been deplorable, this historical analysis points out that, in many respects, the Trump administration's record is not much worse on energy or exacerbating the climate crisis than some prior administrations, and generally continues forward the stamp of approval for fossil energy that every president before Trump has likewise backed.
~ James Gustave Speth
Above all, how did liberty relate to other great aims? Some Americans felt that the pursuit of liberty ultimately would safeguard other values, such as order and equality; others saw order and authority as prior goals in protecting liberty.
~ James MacGregor Burns
To be fully compensated for what one gave of oneself in the struggle for a title is to be restored to the condition one was in prior to competition.
~ James P Carse
the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what are plainly the disjointed parts of some possible narrative.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Availability bias prevents us from setting our prior beliefs appropriately, whereas confirmation bias stops us from updating them for new information.
~ David Franklin
The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
~ Mark Twain
I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.
~ Shawn Ashmore
Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.
~ Richard Ben-Veniste
Soms zou ik ook wel een opvliegend karakter willen hebben,' zei Philip. 'Dat houdt de mensen in beweging. Maar iedereen weet dat ik altijd redelijk ben, daarom word ik nooit zo snel gehoorzaamd als een prior die onverwachts woedend kan uitvallen.
~ Ken Follett
Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin. —Es mi hermano Philip, señora, el prior de Kingsbridge
~ Ken Follett
I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
~ David Prowse
You are looking at a murdered man, Father Prior. A man's hand fitted that arrow, a man's hand drew the bow, and for a man's reason. There must have been others who had a grudge against Rhisiart, others whose plans he was obstructing, besides Saint Winifred. Why blame this killing on her?
~ Ellis Peters
And now here he was. With his love and his hope and, yes, his imperfections, that, in a few months if everything mirrored the events of my prior life, I'd soon trade in for the love and hope of another man who was equally imperfect though in far different ways.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
~ Ernest Sosa
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
~ Daisy Berkowitz
Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and Ryle was wrong. Why, after all these years, does one still have to say these things?
~ Jerry Fodor
Bayesian statistics?
~ Andrew Mayne
The best way to know if someone is prepared to commit is to examine his or her prior commitments. If you want to know how someone will behave tomorrow, take a look at what he or she did yesterday.
~ Andy Stanley
I did a stint on 'Dollhouse,' and prior to my stint on 'Dollhouse,' I had no plans to be working with Joss Whedon until he said, 'Hey, do you want to do this?' When he calls, I'll pick up the phone, and that's how that works.
~ Alan Tudyk
Prior to doing 'Marrowbone,' I'd done three projects, which were all American.
~ Charlie Heaton
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein