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“BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva --a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations. The Abracadabranese, for example, are created by Sin, maintained by Theft and destroyed by Folly. The priests of Brahma, like those of Abracadabranese, are holy and learned men who are never naughty.O Brahma, thou rare old Divinity, First Person of the Hindoo Trinity, You sit there so calm and securely, With feet folded up so demurely -- You're the First Person Singular, surely. --Polydore Smith”
Ambrose Bierce
“Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”
Toni Cade Bambara
“Endure, and preserve yourself for better things”
Virgil
“I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.”
Dorothy Shula
“The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country”
John Adams
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.”
Winston Churchill
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
