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We Prefer Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
- Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we…
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- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever. — Thomas Jefferson
- We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits… — William Hazlitt
- If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in… — Ronald Fisher
- This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive… — Fidel Castro
- We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not… — Peter Pace
- We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to… — Douglas Kennedy
- We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be:… — Pamela Hansford Johnson
- I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we… — Maurice Sendak