Preference Quotes - Page 14

• The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Great Men, Legislature

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.213, Algora Publishing

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• Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Eye, Logical, Beholder

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• Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

  Max Levchin

  Team, Cutting, Etc

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• You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.

  Nir Eyal

  People, Different, Want

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.40, Penguin Canada

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• One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

  Ken Wilber

  Individual, Goodness, Sanctions

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

  William Osler

  Mind, Library, Weakness

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• I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.

  Jessicka

  Queens, Gay, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods.

  Daniel Tosh

  Art, Sex, Men

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• God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

  Dolly Parton

  Purple, Judging, Black

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that there's a zone of natural affection midway between the inner, or family one, and the outer, or all-humanity one. I suppose they are somehow short of a zone themselves and they seem to get vexed... The common man knows better, just as he'd know better if some philosopher told him he ought not to make invidious distinctions by feeding his own children in preference to others. But of course he can't explain; he just ... goes on feeding the kids.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Children, Kids, Men

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• You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.

  Rib Hillis

  Race, Color, Abhorrent

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• My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want." "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want." It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Desire, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Subway

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

  John Cornyn

  People, Judging, Political

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I myself am doing a full year of experiments every seven years, but I'm sure many other divisions are possible, depending on the field, the possibilities, and personal preferences. One hour a day or a day a week.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Years, Division, Fields

  Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Good Life, Able, Strive

  "Singer-Songwriter José González: Live and Let Live". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Desperate is not a sexual preference.

  R. K. Milholland

  Sex, Desperate

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• What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

  Danny Glover

  Justice, Important, Movement

  Source: progressive.org

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• Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

  Stevie Wonder

  Religious, Ethnicity, Democracy

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 electio". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Perfect, Taste

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• In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

  Hank Stuever

  Real, Facts, Tvs

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  Determination, Sacrifice, Views

  Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

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• Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

  David Greenberg

  Ideas, Rooted, Traits

  David Greenberg (2006). “Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929”, p.20, Macmillan

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• It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, Hands, Important

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