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“There are as many preferences as there are men.”

Book:The Complete Works of Horace

Source: The Complete Works of Horace

“Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what is conspicuous or brilliant. Such men forget that Christian virtues, which are God's inspiration, should be viewed from the side of grace, not that of nature. The dignity or difficulty of a good action certainly affects what is technically called its accidental worth, but all essential worth must come from love alone.”

People Action Given Natural Quality Essentials Dignity Difficulty Brilliant Preference Good Actions Alone In Love

Author:Jean-Pierre Camus

“Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.”

World Believe Levels Race Special Information Higher Consequence Tendencies Administration Obscure Tribes Preference Impressive Higher Level Misinformation Mendacity

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Belief Freedom Aim Oneself Preference

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.”

People Want Years Real Opinion Preference Fiasco Personal Preferences

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.”

Giving Long Doe Running Natural Greater Evolution Species Rewards Long Runs Preference Selection Natural Selection

Author:Konrad Lorenz

“Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.”

Feels Sometimes Helping Asks Prayer Praying Preference Our Prayers Turning Points Confessing

Book:Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God

Source: Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God

“Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.”

Way Needs Different Desire Choices Culture Levels Consciousness Teach Groups Different Ways Preference

Author:Richard Rohr

“It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.”

War Speak Language Leader Practice Color Hatred Skins Preference Our Words Friction Disparity

Author:Yehuda Berg

“You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.”

Want Giving Believe Art Choices Fighting Quality Support Giving Up Preference

Author:Christopher Cross

“My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.”

Seats Preference Venues

Author:Ronnie Dunn

“Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.”

People Way Able Church Deals Issues Television Theatre Preference

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.”

Thinking Men Giving Mean Long Eye Science Months Giving Up Machines Property Invention His Eyes Destroying Insecure Preference Patents Purchasing Tenure

Author:Samuel Crompton

“I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.”

I Can Play Character Gay Elements Preference Adjectives

Author:John Michael Higgins

“If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Political Cases Available Objectives Ideology Overwhelming Preference Political Power Naturalism Objective Truth

Author:Phillip E. Johnson

“We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.”

Preference Orientation

Author:Virginia E. Johnson

“I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.”

Bigs Culture Focus Team Discussion Acceptable Muse Norm Preference

Author:Kathryn Minshew