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«If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.»
«A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| Keywords:
angry, bed, come home, Coming Home, neatly, prefer, unmade, unmake
«I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
birth, birth control, increasing, kept, opponents, population, populations, prefer, pretend, suppose
«As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
As Far, concerned, ostentatious, prefer, silent, vice, virtue
«He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.»
«I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
prefer, preferring, prejudices, principles
«If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do so, but he who would prefer to be quietly alone with his work, and who wants but very few friends, will go safest through the world and among people. And even in the most refined circles and with the best surroundings and circumstances, one must keep something of the original character of an anchorite, for other wise one has no root in oneself; one must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning. And whoever chooses poverty for himself and loves it possesses a great treasure, and will always clearly hear the voice of his conscience; he who hears and obeys that voice, which is the best gift of God, finds at least a friend in it, and is never alone.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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