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
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon
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
Aristotle 
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Jean de La Fontaine 
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If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller 
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
Ethel Merman
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Naguib Mahfouz
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It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
Peter Hammill
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Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
Mary Astell
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter Lippmann
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut
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