“ Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results. ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
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“ To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard. ”
- Zen Saying- Copy
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“ The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ”
- Charles Langbridge Morgan- Copy
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“ Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence: the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the universal judgement that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims. That is not a universal judgment today. ”
- Don B. Kates- Copy
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“ The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ”
- Charles Langbridge Morgan- Copy
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“ The Holocaust is a horror we must remember, but not only because of the dead; it is too late for them. Not only because of the survivors; it may even be too late for them. Preserving memory is a solemn responsibility, aimed at saving men and women from apathy toward evil, if not from evil itself… ”
- William J. Jefferson- Copy
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“ When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive neither creating nor preserving nor destroying-I call Him Brahman or Purusha, the Impersonal God. When I think of Him as active-creating, preserving, destroying-I call Him Shakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God… ”
- Al Ghazali- Copy
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“ They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved! ”
- Lea DeLaria- Copy
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“ The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges. ”
- Wayne Allard- Copy
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“ We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. ”
- St. Teresa of Avila- Copy
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“ The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed in the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up. ”
- Charles Morgan- Copy
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“ In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance… ”
- Elizabeth Drew- Copy
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