First, individual rights pre-exist the establishment of any government and are thus "unalienable." ❋ Matt Kibbe (2011)
This seems much more mythical to me, unless, of course, you think Jesus did pre-exist the world, but that would be thinking like a Young Earth Creationist. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)
Moreover, since the cancers might pre-exist, hormone therapy, by accelerating them, could actually have a ❋ Unknown (2010)
You've demonstrated zero familiarity with the genre and you've ignored the multiple examples of wizard schools and wizard trappings that pre-exist Willy that have been pointed out repeatedly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This "naturalist fallacy," as Charles Taylor calls it, thus dismisses frameworks as things we invent, not answers to questions which inescapably pre-exist for us independent of our answer or inability to answer. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Founders considered the rights recognized in the Constitution and BoR to pre-exist and be more fundamental than either the U.S. or state constitutions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Regarding character defects, Rabbi Bleich claims that such defects may well have developed only after a marriage (and perhaps as a result of marital discord), and that there is a halakhic presumption that such flaws did not pre-exist their appearance. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One of my takeaways from their work is that you can engage in the design of a system (it may appear to be the whole system from your position in the ecosystem), but you rarely design a system from scratch – they almost always pre-exist, and their structures are initially defined through emergence rather then design. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But the self towards which our loves lead does not pre-exist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If Israeli settlers can make property claims in East Jerusalem based on title deeds that pre-exist 1948, why can't Palestinians make similar claims in West Jerusalem? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Simple logic: 1. Rights pre-exist and are superior to the constituions, written or unwritten, of all polities, which are bound to protect those rights. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm a great believer in Emerson's maxim "the ends pre-exist in the means". ❋ Unknown (2009)
The rights against actions by government officials that pre-exist the constitution of government are immunities. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)
That is because they reflect the original understanding that the rights thus recognized pre-exist and are superior to all constitutions in all countries and for all time, thus the states are bound bythem. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To understand Barron one has to go back to the principle that rights arising from nature or the social compact pre-exist not only the U.S. Constitution, but all state constitutions constituted under it for which it is the Supreme Law. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Contra Heidegger, Nancy argues that being cannot pre-exist in itself: the Mit- does not come to qualify the sein, rather the Mit- or ‘with’ of being is that which constitutes being itself. ❋ Enowning (2008)
Amy: I can’t believe you slept with Adam after the [class reunion]. He’s engaged and you have a boyfriend!
Lola: Hey it wasn’t [my fault]. Adam is a [pre-existing condition]. ❋ Builtforspeed (2018)