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Tag Name "Prefers" (104)

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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
William Gibson
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
Thomas Jefferson
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
George Santayana
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
Elizabeth Bowen
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The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
Martial
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
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Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.
Ted Lowe
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Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?
Georges Bernanos
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The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
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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
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I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.
Paul Allen
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Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.
Roma Downey
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Jaron Lanier
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
Teresa of Avila
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Agatha Christie
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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: - The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
Confucius
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My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
Vladimir Nabokov
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He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.
J. K. Rowling
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And this is Nymphadora- Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus, said the young witch with a shudder. It's Tonks. -Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only, finished Lupin. So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' muttered Tonks.
J. K. Rowling
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Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
Hudson Taylor
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After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.
Mike DeWine
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