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preservation
«The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Nature
| Keywords:
preservation, that is to say
«We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.»
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
do by, impulses, in general, organized, preservation, ruled, self preservation
«When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
consciousness, heroic, preservation, primarily, self preservation, transformation, transformations, undergo
«We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| Keywords:
assures, deceptively, destination, disaster, diverge, diverged, familiar, fork, fork in the road, Frost, frosted, frosting, frosts, last but not least, less-traveled, offers, poem, preservation, roads, Robert, Robert A, Robert E, Robert Frost, smooth, superhighway, superhighways, traveled, traveling, unlike
«The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
epics, preservation, production, salvation, single, tragedies
«This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
appreciate, month, preservation, preserve, President, run for
«Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
citizens, consciously, preservation, take arms
«We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
ears, in one ear, justice, preservation, safely, scale, scaled, scaling, self preservation, The Wolf, wolf
«Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Foresight,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
clear-thinking, constitute, counsel, emergency, features, foresight, gong, gongs, jarring, jars, preservation, self preservation, strikes, The Emergency, unwillingness