One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.


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They both hurt. The feeling I had yesterday was the same one I have today.
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It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.
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Yesterday I did nothing and today I'm finishing what I did yesterday.
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
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Take in today as another opportunity to do better at what you attempted to do yesterday.
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Today was tomorrow and will be yesterday
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We did what we needed to do, ... And the crowd was great today, so much better than yesterday.
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At least 19 protesters were arrested yesterday, followed by another 10 today.
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We lost close to $1.5 million yesterday and I'm sure we'll lose another $2 million at least today.
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The federal lawsuit filed today has no basis in fact and no basis in law.
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Today was once tomorrow, and tomorrow will be today soon.
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What makes you who you are today, is what you overcome yesterday.
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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
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Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history
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Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!
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What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
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Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
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Be satisfied in what you did yesterday and aim to do better today.
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Be satisfied with what you did yesterday and aim to do better today.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert...
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Mind and man what is in today and make today the solid foundation for tomorrow. Focus on what tomorr...
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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, w...
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Law is an ass, an idiot.
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WHAT WE ARE TODAY IS BECAUSE OF THE CHOICES WE MADE YESTERDAY !
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That is who I was yesterday. Today I walk with God.
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The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute. -Junius.
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It was a great sentence. He will die in prison.
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His parole officer hasn't been born yet.
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Ques eso? Queso?
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Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
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I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
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By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
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Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
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Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
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He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
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Satire is what closes Saturday night.
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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
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With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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