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She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose. Virginia Woolf
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. John Dewey
I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles Toni Morrison
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement."
Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see Soren Kierkegaard
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible). Thomas Pynchon
Winston Churchill quote: "Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed."
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. Winston Churchill
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our..."
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Jose Ortega y Gasset
John Cage quote: "As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency."
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. John Cage
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays. MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: You prefer to be natural? MRS CHEVELEY: Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up. (Act I., lines 132-140) Oscar Wilde
David Mamet quote: "We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or..."
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? David Mamet
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servant? quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat -And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do. As he do do. And there's no doing anything about it! T. S. Eliot
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. Terry Prachett

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