Quotes with prefers

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  • Horace A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bill Viola Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Babe Paley I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Love prefers twilight to daylight.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Santayana The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
    Dialogues in Limbo (1925)
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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