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• Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Struggle, Knowledge

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.169, Vintage

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• Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Soul

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• First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for preserves. The next morning, birds rustled the fruit trees, and later when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem, I found it half eaten, the other side already rotting, or-like another I plucked and split open-being taken from the inside: a swarm of insects hollowing it. I'm too late, again, another space emptied by loss. Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Morning, Taken, Loss

  Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  People, Bird, Way

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Butterfly, Garden

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.10

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• And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

  Jonathan Swift

  Prayer, Sunday, Journey

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

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• Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

  Hesiod

  Mean, Moments, All Things

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• For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Trying, Withdrawal

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• I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

  Philip Larkin

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now.
  It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.

  Richard Matheson

  Men, Our World, Civilization

  "The Path". Book by Richard Matheson, 1999.

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• From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

  Mathew Brady

  Mother, Country, Men

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• The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help
  before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Memories, Found Objects

  "Marcel Duchamp’s Influence". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Long, Becoming, World

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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• I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

  James Branch Cabell

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.179, eBookIt.com

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• Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Kings, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Maine Woods - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.102, Read Books Ltd

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• It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Desire, Liberty, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.194, Wildside Press LLC

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• We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

  Penelope Lively

  Latin, Museums, Lexicon

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.

  David Duke

  Hate, Thinking, People

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

  John Shaw Billings

  Science, Men, Use

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• Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Memories, Light

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• Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

  Chauncey Depew

  Drama, Names, Would Be

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Oration and memorial addresses”

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• In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.104

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