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preference
«In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.»
Author: Amy Lowell
| About:
Literature,
Science
| Keywords:
classics, modern science, newest, oldest, preference, The Classics
«There is no doubt that Emerson was a yea-sayer. He did celebrate the daylight and hope in preference to blackness and despair.»
«If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.»
«Being sixty in Washington sometimes feels like having had one year's experience sixty times. However, age can confer a certain calm about the passing circus, a preference for understatement and for people with low emotional metabolisms.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
confer, metabolism, metabolisms, one year, preference, understatement, understatements
«Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
commencement, eschew, eschewed, nonetheless, partisans, preference, smacks
«If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Advertising,
Choice,
Travel,
Work
| Keywords:
groups of people, preference, raising
«Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.»
«Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
discourage, esteemed, hoarding, lays, part with, penny, preference
«Have fortitude and self-control; use good and sweet-words; and examine each act of yours on the touch-stone of My preference.»
«There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, obstinate, preference, right and wrong