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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.
Herman Kahn

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
William Greider

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Jessica Lange

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
John Charles Polanyi

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.
David Korten

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
James Bovard

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
Lexa Doig

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
Don Henley

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Morton Feldman

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Gustav Stresemann

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Gary Ryan Blair

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