Ironic also is that these twin ideologies both put the cart before the horse.

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"It's premature to put the cart before the horse, " Biden said Thursday.

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In that sense, Cornett has put the cart before the horse.

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"Don't put the cart before the horse" said the Welsh Secretary.

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So I don't want to put the cart before the horse.

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Thirteen years ago he penned a book, still in print, called Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decision-Making, which says that most corporate executives put the cart before the horse.

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Indeed, correlation is frequently not causation, and while growing economies by definition need more money, to pump money into an economy without the growth first is to put the proverbial cart before the horse.

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This time the SEC put the horse before the cart.

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