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Tag Name "Prefer" (1376)

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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
Dogen
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Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.
Henry Watson Fowler
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Chilon of Sparta
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Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Plato
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
Antonio Tabucchi
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Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.
Ken Keyes Jr.
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What do you have in mind - inhumement, entombment, inurnment, interment? Some people lately just prefer in-sarcophogus-ment.
Anjanette Comer
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
Rachel Weisz
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We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed
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Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.
Peter Jackson
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Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.
Jo Coudert
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It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
Aphex Twin
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I'd pretty much debate anybody. I prefer to debate smart liberals. I'm not saying this about Stephen Colbert but, unfortunately, the most famous liberals generally aren't the smartest ones. I have a list of the smarter liberals I recommend.
Ann Coulter
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
Karl Lagerfeld
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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
Rainbow Rowell
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A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.
John Stuart Mill
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Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.
Peter London
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
Joanne Harris
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I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.
Arjun Rampal
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It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
Anna Held
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If you can't love me the right way, then don't love me at all. Don't be mad at me because I prefer to be happy.
Karrueche Tran
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Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
Joseph Warren
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