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• Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

  Voltaire

  Work, Evil, Vices

  Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Debt, Independence, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.242, Hackett Publishing

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• for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

  Mark Twain

  Sanity, Reason

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.764, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Night, Hair, Two

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.

  Brigham Young

  Angel, Son, Law

  "Journal of Discourses 9:102", January 5, 1860.

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• Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  People, Community, Saint

  Stanley Hauerwas, John Swinton (2004). “Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology”, p.74, Routledge

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• The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Makeup, Names, Want

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sleep, Israel, Devil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

  John Christopher

  Memories, Men, Trying

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Use, Moral

  "Why We Can't Wait".

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• Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Memories, Struggle

  Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr

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• What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

  Susanna Clarke

  Sacrifice, Feelings, Comfort

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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, People, Abuse

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Remembering”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.

  Lewis Black

  Unique, Existentialism, Enough

  Lewis Black (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Memories, Forget You, Wells

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• A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.

  Wendell Berry

  Home, Garden, Practice

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• Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

  Robert Hass

  Running, Land, Water

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• Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Past, Men

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• Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

  Jacqueline Carey

  Honor, Battle, May

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.

  Christine Feehan

  Gun, Hands, Should Have

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• A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Order, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (1842). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.377

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• the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Want, Obstacles, Tender Is The Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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