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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Diversity, Tasks, Biology

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• Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Self, Doe

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• In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular shape of such and such an animal, but the general procedures of nature in the animal's production and preservation.

  Pierre Louis Maupertuis

  Science, Animal, Order

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• Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

  David Limbaugh

  Personality, Liberty, Guarantees

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Survival, Instinct

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.42, Random House

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• U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Degrees, Might

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.1, Pluto Press

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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love, Nature, Art

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press

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• In wildness is the preservation of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Camping, World, Transcendentalism

  "Walking" (1862)

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Men, Practice, People

  "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988.

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• When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Men, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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  A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

  Mark Twain

  War, Names, Memorial

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Thinking, Self

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Nature, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Self, Heroism, Greater

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• In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

  N.D. Wilson

  Self, World, Ultimate

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• If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Self, House

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• Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

  Trinny Woodall

  Children, Self, Careers

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• I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

  Dennis Lehane

  Party, Self, People

  "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 2, 2010.

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• We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Views, Umpires, Justice

  "Individualism: True and False". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1945.

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