Preservation Quotes
345 quotes by 287 authors
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
— Berenice Abbott
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of…
— John O. Brennan
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We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the…
— Martin Van Buren
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
— Samuel Butler
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
— Joseph Campbell
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve…
— J. B. Stoner
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as…
— John F. Kennedy
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I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the…
— J. William Fulbright
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
— Murray Gell-Mann
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives…
— Thorstein Veblen
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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
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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
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To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
— George Santayana
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
— Albert Einstein
Who Wrote These Preservation Quotes
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