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• When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

  Larry Crabb

  Grateful, Sadness, Self

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Strong, Soldier, Tasks

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1974). “Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966”

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• Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Sunshine, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Sunshine" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

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• I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

  David O. McKay

  Home, America, Desire

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• It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Government, Important

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792”, p.351, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soon Enough, Gone, Movement

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

  Taryn Simon

  Knowing, Would Be, Want

  "Blow-Up Brian De Palma & Taryn Simon in conversation". www.artforum.com. 2012.

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• The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Self, Police

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• Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

  James Altucher

  Wealth Creation, Investing, Firsts

  "What are the ten most important things about personal finance that someone without a finance background must know?" by James Altucher, www.quora.com. February 9, 2017.

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• Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Army, Triumphant

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• His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Self, Instinct

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

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• Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Commitment, Ideas, Giving

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• Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hero, Men, Past

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.11, Routledge

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• Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Fear, Men, Air

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• All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

  will.i.am

  Country, Art, Love You

  Source: thesource.com

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• As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

  Anthony Green

  Mean, Self, Focus

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political system has evolved into a giant bureaucracy, the primary purpose of which is self-preservation, not fixing anything.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Self, Political

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

  Barack Obama

  Self, Views, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

  Ramez Naam

  Restoration, Incentives, Natural

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Self, Political

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

  Jon Gordon

  Self, Space, Survival

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• An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Determination, Opinion, Method

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Nice, Europe

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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