A Quote by Ephraim Mirvis
Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.
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You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.
Action takes precedence over study.
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.
As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.
To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of truth; I am a fragment of the life." Instead, His claim was absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions.
... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.
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