Preserving Quotes
229 Preserving quotes by 202 unique authors
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes…
— Stephen Covey
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Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real…
— C.S. Lewis
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From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth is that God…
— D. A. Fisher
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I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else…
— Mario
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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever…
— David Foster Wallace
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The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his…
— Robert W. Firestone
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The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we…
— James Branch Cabell
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If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among…
— James Hutton
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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing…
— Christopher Alexander
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Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own…
— Albert J. Nock
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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....…
— Erich Fromm
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all…
— George Eliot
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Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
— Eric Hoffer
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though…
— Elizabeth Drew
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Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
— Sean O'Casey
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The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a…
— Mao Zedong
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
— Gavin Newsom
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
— Garth Stein
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