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• There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

  George Muller

  Self, World, Taste

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• I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Doctrine, Founding Fathers Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.36, Modern Library

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• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

  Seneca the Elder

  Greatness, Mind, Excess

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• President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

  William J. Clinton

  President, Records, Judgment

  Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.

  Henry Paulson

  Responsibility, Risk, Roles

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• I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

  Miuccia Prada

  Kind, Prada

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

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• Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

  Moliere

  Respect, Esteem, Cease

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2000). “The Misanthrope and Other Plays”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Remembered

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• For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Forever, Degrees

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Common Sense: With the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.

  Nelson DeMille

  Running, Fall, Men

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• Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Oysters, Joy

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• So, what’s your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grace, Style, Mind

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• I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Giving, May

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Passion, Men

  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

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• We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  Jane Austen

  Encouragement, Heart, Enough

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.17

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Knowing, Government

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.

  Eric Ludy

  Selfish, Heart, Names

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.52, Harvest House Publishers

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• Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

  P. C. Cast

  Doe, Spirit, Gender

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Needs, Poverty

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• I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.

  Jim James

  Color, People, Skins

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

  Jane Smiley

  Grief, Views, Personality

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Consciousness, Distinction

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• Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Gourmet, Consciousness

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