J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation."
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Preservation
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
Theodore Parker
Transcendentalist, Minister
"Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The law of self-preservation is higher than written law."
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"There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom."
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"Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism."
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"An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion."
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"There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind"
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"The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade."
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