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• You've got to be good to each other ... it really comes back to respect. I was raised in a very Catholic, Italian family and it was all about respect. Don't talk badly about [your partner] the second they walk out the door; really preserve your relationship and be good to each other. Treat it like gold.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Italian, Doors, Advice

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• Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

  Alex Haley

  Powerful, Littles, Tools

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• I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Fall, Thrill, Lips

  "The Oxford Book of English Verse". Book edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Introduction, 1900.

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• Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

  Scott Cunningham

  Honor, Salmon, Bees

  Scott Cunningham (2011). “Cunningham's Book of Shadows: The Path of An American Traditionalist”, p.19, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

  Frank E. Gaebelein

  Names, Greek, Trying

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• May God preserve me from being rich while they are indigent, from enjoying robust health if I do not try to cure their diseases, from eating good food, clothing myself well and resting in my home if I do not share with them a piece of my bread and give them, in the measure of my abilities, part of my clothes and if I do not welcome them into my home

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Home, Eating Good, Clothes

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• Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Prayer, Home, Thinking

  "There Are Two Flavors of God People". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.beliefnet.com. June 2004.

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• Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.

  Anna Kamienska

  Letting Go, Writing, Hands

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• Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

  Giacomo Meyerbeer

  Creativity, Artistic, Fame

  Giacomo Meyerbeer (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters”

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• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

  George Combe

  Character, Law, Scotland

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• At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.

  Geoffrey Hodson

  Heart, Ideas, Law

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• A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Common Sense

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Allies, World

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

  Peter L. Berger

  Generations, Becoming, Language

  Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann (2011). “The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow their example and embrace their traditions. Yes, pioneer faith is needed as much in the world today as in any period of time. Once again, we need to know that heritage. We need to teach it, we need to be proud of it, and we need to preserve it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Rose, Example, Pioneers

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• We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow

  Ronald Reagan

  Order, Today, Tomorrow

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  Jack Hanna

  Animal, Our World, People

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• Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

  Henri Matisse

  Organization, Trying, Sound

  Volkmar Essers, Henri Matisse (1993). “Matisse”, Taschen

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• God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them.
  He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you.
  He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner.
  Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Punishment, Perfection

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

  Russell Kirk

  Thinking, Order, Justice

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Brotherly Love, Accepting

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Perfect, United States

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• It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Mother, Heart, Compassion

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• Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Expression, Ideas

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.11

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• Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it’s like you weren’t hurt.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Hurt, Distance, Hook

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