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• Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious reasons, or for sexual preference. Americans are a tolerant, generous, and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage and it is a debate about activist judges who make up the law rather than interpret the law.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Sex, Gay

  "A Primary Factor". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 14, 2006.

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• So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Adults, Use

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Freedom, Fate, Rights

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Patriotism, Belief, Spontaneous

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.7188, e-artnow

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• It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Easy, Certain

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

  Bruce Barton

  Leadership, Business, Goes On

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• Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mathematician, Indifferent, Aesthetic

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• How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Moving, Mean, Games

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• The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

  Dick Morris

  Political, President, Needs

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.74, St. Martin's Press

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• Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

  David Mamet

  Luck, Favors, Prepared

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.99, Vintage

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• Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Taste, Culinary

  "A Handbook of Gastronomy".

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• Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Wise, Addiction, Demand

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• You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms should also be very intimate rooms-they should express your personal preferences in every way...Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.

  Dorothy Draper

  Thinking, House, Comfort

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• Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Beer, Men, Glasses

  "Natural Law". Harvard Law Review, 1918.

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• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

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• My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldnt hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do The Brady Bunch because Id have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.

  Susan Olsen

  Hurt, Kids, Play

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• Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.

  Steven Moffat

  Country, Apology, Men

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• Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Expression, Enormous

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• I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Attachment, Expectations, Joy

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• Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Breathing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2733, Delphi Classics

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• When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Culture, Election

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.6, Moody Publishers

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• The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important to keep beer fun, relevant and in step with the changing preferences of adults who enjoy beer.

  Pat McGauley

  Fun, Wine, Beer

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• The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.

  Noah Webster

  Religious, Father, Hands

  Noah Webster (1785). “Sketches of American Policy Under the Following Heads: I. Theory of Government, II. Governments on the Eastern Continent, III. American States, Or, the Principles of the American Constitutions Contrasted with Those of European States, IV. Plan of Policy for Improving the Advantages and Perpetuating the Union of the American States”, p.27, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Years, Ideas, Moments

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• If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Past, Civilization

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