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“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”
Will Rogers
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
Aristotle
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
Winston Churchill
“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison”
Mark Twain
“I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self”
William Penn
“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after”
Wallace Stevens
“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”
William Osler
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag”
Craig Washington
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
Jean de La Fontaine
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