Heraclitus
Philosopher
"The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle."
Preference quotes
Preference
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one."
Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me."
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life."
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"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
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"I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like."
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"Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all."
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"I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others."
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"Art is the expression of an enormous preference."
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"I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence."
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"The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many."
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"Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference."
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"My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done."
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"The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome."
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"Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand."
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"Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians."
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"The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses."
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"When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're delivering something of enormous value, which is indicating that, you know, you'd essentially like to be advertised to by this company."
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"Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference."
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