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Tag Name "Preferable" (80)

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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
Gore Vidal
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Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
Claude Cahun
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Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
Minor White
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Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
John Kennedy Toole
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Richard Steele
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I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable. How sweet, Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.
Lisa Kleypas
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That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
Philippe de Commines
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That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
Charles Inglis
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If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.
Dennis Stock
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.
Tom Robbins
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The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.” True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
Anthony Lane
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Aristotle
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
David Rockefeller
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Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.
Robertson Davies
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As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
Barbara Hambly
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We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.
Loretta Chase
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We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
George R. R. Martin
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A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
Chanakya
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
Cesare Pavese
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The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Benjamin Tucker
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Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
J. K. Rowling
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