Preservation Quotes
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Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.
Frank Howard Clark
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I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.
Albert Einstein
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Boris Sidis
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Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
Gerald Durrell
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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
N.D. Wilson
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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
Nalini Singh
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Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.
Werner Herzog
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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
Clarence Stein
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As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.
Anthony Green
Circa Survive
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These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
Adolf Hitler
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke
Nazareth
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But realize this: we are living through writing’s Cambrian explosion, not its mass extinction. Language is more varied than ever before, even if some of it is directly copied from the clipboard—variety is the preservation of an art, not a threat to it.
Christian Rudder
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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
Boris Sidis
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Susanne Langer
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Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.
John Locke
Nazareth
