Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
If I have a preference, I'd rather have a home-cooked meal than go out to the fanciest place. — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with… — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My preference is that we beat him [Donald Trump] outright in the primary process. And I believe that's exactly what's going to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Time for Wine Tasting 101. “So here’s how this works. When tasting a wine, as opposed to casual drinking, there are four… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who… — David Shibley Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor,… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image