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“We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.”

Use Flow Cooks Poison Chemicals Precursor

Author:Greg Walden

“The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.”

Thinking World Lasts Danger Creating Fairs Architecture Parks Theme Superficial Civilisation Precursor Theme Parks

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.”

Should Critics Indispensable Vocabulary Rivalry Connotation Polemics Precursor

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.”

Has Beens Order Evil Hatred Latter Mask Resentment Creeds Barbarism Impunity Precursor

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.”

Way Humans Doe Modern Contemporary Primitive Being Human Modernity Precursor Animism

Book:Animism

Source: Animism

“I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.”

Shows Example Debt Investors Taxation Discouraged National Debt Precursor

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.”

Men May States Atheism Development Evidence Historical Notion Positive Atheism Ideology Suspicion Distrust Adversaries Precursor All State

Author:Karl Mannheim

“Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.”

Feelings Light Action Desire Simple Practice Yoga Our Thoughts Slow Down Slowing Yoga Practice Desire To Live Precursor

Author:Donna Farhi

“We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.”

Humans Desire Natural Race Habit Built Constitution Human Race Divorced Precursor

Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.”

Truth Perfect Theory Shade Twilight Perfect Days Precursor

Author:James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

“I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.”

Littles Temptation Precursor

Author:Bobby Keys

“My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.”

School Mother Father Parent Rooms Class Teacher Taught Brother Beloved Grandmother Latin My Grandmother Sociology Librarian Geography County School Teachers Knobs Precursor Geography Teachers

Author:Sam Abell

“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”

“Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.”

World Years Two Heard Century Hundred Years Ago Blow Around The World Haiti Precursor

Author:Baldwin Spencer

“While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.”

Children Use Hands Dangerous Drug Precursor

Author:Bobby Scott

“I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.”

Feels Neurosis Schizophrenia Manic Aspergers Precursor Manic Depression Schizoid

Author:Jim Shaw

“While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.”

Children Government Suffering Three Born Type Reports Obesity Diabetes Precursor

Author:Tim Holden

“Happiness is the precursor to success.”

Book:The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

“Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.”

War Country Pay Trade Lips Diplomacy Embarrassment Sanctions Free Trade Lip Service Precursor

Author:Ron Paul

“Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.”

Seems Imagination Involvement Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience Precursor

Author:Terence McKenna

“Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.”

Acceptance Serenity Precursor

Author:Bill Crawford

“The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Wanted Rich Kings Gold Chemistry Metals Rich People Alchemy Alchemist Trying To Change Back In Time Precursor

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.”

Thinking Reality Grows Existence Mere Dawn Wishful Thinking Precursor

Book:The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

“If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.”

Ifs World Looks Political Walks Trump Speech Europe Series Climate Soldier Isis Precursor

Author:David Brooks

“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.”

Needs Art Enough Form Powerful Grief Emotional Engagement Refreshments Precursor

Author:Catherine Wilson

“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.”

Reality Desire Possibility Capable Intention Intense Clarity Performing Anticipation Precursor

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.”

Way Believe Shows Jesus I Believe Realizing Oneness Precursor

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors”

Should Facts Past Critics Conception Indispensable Vocabulary Essays Rivalry Connotation Polemics Precursor

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”

Source: The Book of Lost Things: A Novel

“Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.”

People One Thing Discipline Behavior Chaos Punishment Dirty Anarchy Timing Unnecessary Associates Bad Behavior Dirty Words Good Behavior Precursor

Author:Buck Brannaman

“The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.”

Faces Mother Family Mom Mirrors My Mom Being A Mom Precursor Short Mothers Day

Book:Playing and Reality

Source: Playing and Reality

“There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.”

“Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”

Writing Past Conception Polemics Precursor

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.”

Ruins Good Life Dogma Precursor

Author:Thales

“At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.”

Writing Different Universe Next Novel Evolution Establishment Unlikely Sequels Precursor Different Universes

Author:John M. Ford

“In those days, I did what was necessary for me to win. This included training with heavy weights: a precursor for injury. So if I could do it over again I’d train with lighter weights, higher reps, no sets below 10 reps, with negatives slower than positives, and avoid injury. If I had done that, my physique wouldn’t have been quite as bulky, but with more definition and with less pain.”

Ifs Has Beens Done Pain Winning Higher Training Weight Train Definitions Heavy If I Could Injury Lighters Physique Precursor Heavy Weights

Author:Frank Zane

“When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?”

Should Helping Seems Parent Church Taught Masters Method Saint Doctrine Defined Compare Rejects Relative Documents Council Heresy Modernism Bewildered Precursor

Author:Jean Guitton

“But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society.”

“I certainly do not consider myself the next Jesus. I'd say he was more of a precursor to Zach Braff.”

Next Jesus Precursor

Author:Zach Braff

“At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.”

“It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins”

Pain Lasts Night Wind Cold Passages Last Night Fart Precursor Cold Night

Book:The Shorter Pepys

Source: The Shorter Pepys

“Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues”

Girl Three Sports Issues Pages Magazines Ran Other Girl Precursor Sports Illustrated Swimsuits

Author:Esther Williams

“The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.”

Lasts Revolution Bigger Solemn French Revolution Precursor

Author:Francois-Noel Babeuf

“Pain is the precursor to change.”

Pain Change Precursor

Author:Mel Gibson

“Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.”

“I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.”

Ifs Love Running Age Common Rocks Jazz Heavy Dramatic Metals Thread Fusion Heavy Metal Rockers Precursor Common Threads

Author:Edgar Winter

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”

States Home Certain Ruins Empires Aggressive Overwhelmed Consolidation Precursor

Author:Robert E. Lee

“Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.”

May Dies Plans Sacrifice Bravery Resistance Cowardice Retreat Precursor

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.”

Children Use Community Our Children Trade Impact Strategy Illegal Chemicals Our Community Precursor Methamphetamine

Author:Dennis Cardoza

“A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.”

Doe Ends Facts Process Inevitable Murderer Rebellious Anticipate Precursor Enzymes

Author:William C. Brown