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• An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Determination, Opinion, Method

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Nice, Europe

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Compassion

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

  Margaret Mead

  Integrity, Ocean, Communication

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• Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Law, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowing

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• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Self

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• If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hands, People, Liberty

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Eye, Church, Four

  O. S. Hawkins (1990). “Revive Us Again”, Baptist Sunday School Board

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• Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Wildlife, Vices

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• The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Self, Church

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• Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Insecurity, Poverty

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• The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Blind Belief, Atheism, India

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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• There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Emotion, Appeals, Mankind

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press

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• The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Self, Law, Foundation

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Diary of a Bad Year”, p.17, Random House

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Exercise, Men, Voting

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Men, Feelings

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 804 (Notebook W II 2. Fall 1887, KGW VIII, 2.220-1, KSA 12.554-5), 1888.

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• Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

  Jefferson Davis

  Agency, Government, Office

  Jefferson Davis, Dr WIlliam Peters (2014). “A Short HIstory of the Confederate States of America”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Blessing, Views

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

  Gary Snyder

  World, Wilderness, Wildness

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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• The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.

  James A. Garfield

  Money, Blessing, People

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• The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

  R. H. Tawney

  Philosophy, Real, Hands

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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• Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

  Ronald Reagan

  Common Sense, Challenges, Conservative

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

  Peter Drucker

  Party, Cutting, Men

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.111, Transaction Publishers

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• Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pain, Moving, Blow

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.271, Lulu.com

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