We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.
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Existence precedes and rules essence.
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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.
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I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.
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Big thinking precedes great achievement.
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Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes its goal.
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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
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