Preferred Quotes
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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Error often is to be preferred to indecision.
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I’m Edward Clark. Born Edward Delacey. Now, apparently, Viscount Claridge.” He shut his eyes. “You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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We are signatories to ILO conventions, and we don't think we have done anything in contravention of the agreements. We will answer the complaint point by point. This is not the proper way to address the problem, and we would have preferred to have face-to-face discussions.
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A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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I received many offers - namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan - but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.
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Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.
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I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
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On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
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The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?
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The person who thinks with their own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.
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A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.
