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Tag Name "Prefer" (1375)

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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 knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
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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 to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
Dogen
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I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
Clifton Fadiman
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Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?
Daniel Gilbert
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I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.
Clive Standen
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I prefer being able to see my opponent. It is just different for me I didn't grow up with the internet age really.
Daniel Negreanu
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I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have a real impetus when I'm sitting at my computer. Now that I know what it's like to get to bring characters and their stories to fruition, I'm addicted. I'm a junkie. I want more.
Coley Sohn
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In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.
Danny Pintauro
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As far as a job, actors get treated a lot better than writers so I definitely prefer acting. A writer has to make his own coffee and an actor has somebody bring them coffee.
Colton Dunn
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
Dave Grohl
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I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.
Condola Rashad
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When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.
David Copperfield
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
Confucius
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As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.
David Duchovny
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I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
Conrad Veidt
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The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.
David Eddings
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I would prefer to be in a place where I'm appreciated.
Corey Dillon
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Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.
David Gill
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I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
Courtney Love
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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
David Hume
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