It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'… — John Thune Copy Share Image
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a… — Christopher Denham Copy Share Image
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I think there's probably really wonderful music that has been lost due to the lack of preservation methods way back in the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a… — Martine Epoque Copy Share Image
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. — John Muir Copy Share Image
The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
“These 'Instructions' were held in high esteem as text-books and writing exercises in schools—a circumstance to which we owe the preservation of… — Ptahhotep Copy Share Image