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• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  Basil Hume

  Divine Order, Choices, Decision

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• The classic literature is always modern.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Literature, Classic, Modern

  "Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1862.

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• The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Glory, Mass

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

  John Paul Stevens

  Religious, Squares, Atheism

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• No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It's what we all have in common. That, and masturbation.

  Jon Stewart

  Race, People, Matter

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• Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Exclusion, Categories

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Lust, Reason, Loud

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• For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Doubt, Majority, Stores

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• There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

  Luis Figo

  Stay Strong, Believe, Play

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• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  Lance Loud

  Men, Loud, Bother

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• That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

  Charles Inglis

  Government, Form, Saviour

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• Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

  John Stuart Mill

  Two, Giving, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.187, John Wiley & Sons

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• And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

  Alanis Morissette

  Morning, Would Be, Able

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• In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Years, Issues, Addresses

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• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Issues, People, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Running, Long, Giving

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• Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Ideas, People, Shining

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• Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

  Martin O'Malley

  Leadership, Adversity, Two

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• With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, Keys, Mountain Ranges

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

  Timothy Keller

  Judging, Moral, Standards

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• God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Quality, Prejudice, Form

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 21, 2015

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• The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear.

  Sengcan

  Letting Go, Way, Difficult

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