If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the… — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know… — iO Tillett Wright Copy Share Image
My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference… — Thomas Jefferson 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
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever. — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose… — Tom Vanderbilt 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
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users… — Hans H Wellisch Copy Share Image
I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a… — Vance Bourjaily Copy Share Image
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
