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• Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

  Robert E Lane

  Reality, Men, Two

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• To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

  James Randi

  Atheism, Littles, Bias

  James Randi (1987). “The Faith Healers”

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• My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  Source: www.today.com

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• If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

  Ed Stetzer

  Biblical, Culture, Demand

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Sep 02, 2009

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• I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

  Zach Gilford

  Thinking, Style, Different

  "Zach Gilford Gives Us Some Answers". Interview with Katie Fischer, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Struggle, Doctors, Ideas

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• The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

  Paul Simon

  Degrees, Screens

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• Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Boys, Giving

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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• To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Design, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Long, Giving, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.4

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• Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Stubborn

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Family, Running, Law

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1956). “A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing”

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• "Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.

  Esther Hicks

  Ocean, Mean, Cells

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• I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

  Joy Behar

  Coffee, Thinking, Reality

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• Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Teenage, Kids, Beer

  "'Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

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• We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Unintelligent Agent". Salon.com, January 17, 1997.

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• Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual"... "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle... Homosexualism is a sexual preference.

  Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

  Gay, Wings, Political

  "Niech Homo Bedzie Homo". Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz's blog (translated), August 31, 2007.

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• [On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Summer, Mother, Long

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• As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Spring, Fall, Weather

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Home, Vegetables, Principles

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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• My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

  John McCain

  President, Vices, Would Be

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• That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Real, Blow, Creating

  "Design Guru Jeff Zeldman On Facebook, Twitter, Onanism" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.

  Nia Long

  Religious, Believe, Commitment

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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