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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. |
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
A precedent embalms a principle.
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
