Top Preferred Quotes
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.
Derek Harold Richard Barton
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
Marilyn vos Savant
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy 
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I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
Philip Emeagwali 
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
Andrew Eldritch 
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill 
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine 
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Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
Levon Helm 
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There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.
Branford Marsalis 
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I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.
John Blair 
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon 
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