Preservation Quotes - Page 4

• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Good Friend, Men

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• Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

  Robert Hewison

  Teamwork, Country, Museums

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

  Sue Kelly

  Effort, Environmental, Legacy

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• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Government, Ends

  1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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• In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Believe, Survival, Inheritance

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• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Gold, Coal

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Mean, Break

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• I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Long, Historical, Supportive

  Jack L. Chalker (1988). “Dance Band on the Titanic”, Del Rey

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• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

  Strom Thurmond

  Appreciate, Black, Minorities

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• Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

  Gerald Durrell

  Zoos, Sides, Should

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• Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

  Elihu Root

  Rights, Government, People

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• Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

  Audre Lorde

  Caring, Compassion, Self

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.130, Courier Dover Publications

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• This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Silly, Appreciate

  "Bush Finds It Easy to Slip on an Icy Campaign Trail". articles.latimes.com. January 28, 2000.

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• The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

  Georgette Heyer

  Self, Three, Instinct

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• Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• ...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.

  Katherine Howe

  Names, Long, People

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• Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Distance, Thinking, Self

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• It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.

  Kate Morton

  Loneliness, Self, Way

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Selfish, Victory, Skins

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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

  Nalini Singh

  Self, Self Preservation, Sense Of Self

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.24, Penguin

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• Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

  Iris Murdoch

  Reading, Writing, Important

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Community, Individuality, Ethics

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1292, eBookIt.com

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