Preserves Quotes - Page 25

• For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

  Allen Weinstein

  People, Roles, Records

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• I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

  Sam Houston

  Wish, Ruins, Unions

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• Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Powerful, Lying

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• The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Weakness, Body, Divinity

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• The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

  Andrew Goodman

  Black, Warning, Our Society

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• For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.

  Ellen Willis

  Wall, Law, Two

  "Freedom from Religion". "The Nation", February 19, 2001.

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• One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

  Francis Galton

  Law, Land, Civilization

  "Hereditary Talent and Character". MacMillan's Magazine, 12, 1865.

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• Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Vegetables, Orange, Meditation

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.88, New York Review of Books

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• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Ellen Tauscher

  War, Order, Atmosphere

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• The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Data, Way, Predictions

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

  Neil Postman

  Children, Parenting, Childhood

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.138, Vintage

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Years

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Good Life, College, Mind

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• So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

  Maria Monk

  Children, Pain, Taken

  Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.156

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• Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Children, Equality, Men

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• Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

  Bob Wise

  Government, Order, Safety

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• Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Today, Denial, Social

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• We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

  Heather Wilson

  Oil, Land, Long

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• When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Believe, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Order, Risk

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  Yahoo Serious

  Culture, Way, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch
  and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

  I. F. Stone

  Lunch, Opinion, Belts

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• We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

  Paul Weyrich

  Country, Different, Generations

  "Burying conservatism" by Ian Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2008.

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• They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.

  George Harrison

  Past, Wings, Mad

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