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• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Moral

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• What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Literature, Clue

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• Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

  Maurice Blanchot

  People, Proud, Lovers

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• To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

  Petrarch

  Men, Evil, Utterance

  Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters" by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, (p. 59), 1898.

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• In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Funny, Book, Science

  "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners". Book by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862.

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• I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "Putin opens up for CNN's Larry King" by Jonathan D. Austin, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2000.

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• No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Doe, Facts

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Prejudice, Victim

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• We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

  Virginia E. Johnson

  Orientation

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• I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

  Marvin Olasky

  Race, Alternatives, Favors

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• Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Truth, Teaching, Bars

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1988). “Gottschalk and the grande tarantelle”, Third World Pr

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• There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

  Edith Wharton

  Sympathy, Attitude, Gold

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• A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

  Alfred Austin

  Character, Garden, Taste

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

  Gary Moore

  Guitar, Hands, Choices

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• Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

  Ferran Adria

  Funny, Food, Lobster

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• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  John Hancock

  Respect, Honesty, Men

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• Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  God, Wisdom, Religious

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• Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Religious, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 14, 2013

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• I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Kentucky, Scotch Whisky

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

  Michael Sandel

  Mean, Egalitarianism, Ideas

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Political, Vacuums

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Expression, Leaving

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• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Recovery, Thinking

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• There are as many preferences as there are men.

  Horace

  Men

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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