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“I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after”
Wallace Stevens
“Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.”
Peter Tosh
“I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical."”
Ivan Boesky
“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
Walter Lippmann
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
David Hume
“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”
Edward Abbey
“I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.”
Joe Namath
“To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
Michael Oakeshott
“In the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty”
Charles Sanders Peirce
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