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
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
Emilio Estevez
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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