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The mutual preference of frankness over flattery is what leads to iron sharpening iron. — Torry Martin

Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference. — Mark A. Noll

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere. — Robin Morgan

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. — Malcolm Gladwell

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. — Carl Sagan

There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences. — Clive Davis

Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless. — George Eliot

Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference. — Farshad Asl

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference: — Ken Keyes Jr.

I thank Lord Brahma that your preference doesn't extend to a man being loyal to same woman for many lifetimes! — Amish Tripathi

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want. — Natalie Maines

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. — Laurie Helgoe

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." — Thomas Merton

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president. — Katherine Harris

Nothing that exists in this world is not amazing! It is all merely a matter of personal
preference! — Ryohgo Narita

Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference. — Lemmy Kilmister

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings. — Robert Patterson

Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool. — Jo Brand

The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on. — Alice Munro

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem. — John Cleese

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. — Ravi Zacharias

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry. — Vera Nazarian

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems. — Havoc Pennington

A true gentleman doesn't prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn't have any preferences whatsoever. — Matt LeBlanc

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations. — Dennis Green

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does. — Will Rogers

I love to collaborate! That's totally my preference. And I feel like everything I do ends up being that way. — Josh Pais

While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference. — Allison Anders

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate. — Mark Salling

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. — Thomas Jefferson

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. — Mark Twain

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence. — Terry Pratchett

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. — Ambrose Bierce

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley

I have a strong preference for being alive. — Alan Alda

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. — Thom Mayne

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait. — David Greenberg

But ... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with? — Fritz Diantan

The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear. — Sengcan

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous. — Jane Wiedlin

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference. — Leila Aboulela

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference. — Martin O'Malley

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child. — Gregory Stock

So, what's your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared. — David Mamet

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it. — Vince Vaughn

Men works by preference, not by logic. — Soseki Natsume

My preference is that of a salt-inclined palate over a sweet-craving one, but also one developed through reading, travel, and temperament. — David Tanis

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. — James Randi

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. — Moliere

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.' — Rose Tremain

Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans. — John De Ruiter

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain. — Ptolemy

When he left her room tonight, she wanted his preference to be only her. His hands would only want her skin. He'd only fit perfectly with Severine. — Calia Read

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life. — Fran Lebowitz

Art is the expression of an enormous preference. — Wyndham Lewis

He likes girls on bikes, I like boys with guitars. — Beth Garrod

[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance. — Ben Elton

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference. — Evan Hunter

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr

What sexual preference do you hope she has?" "Happiness." Isnt that cool? — Francesca Lia Block

The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome. — Paul Simon

My preference is simple - you. — Kasie West

Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate. — David Hume

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. — Robin McKinley

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom. — Ashley Tisdale

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe. — Epictetus

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning. — Alanis Morissette

Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss. — Toba Beta

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. — Mitch Kapor

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss. — Jason Robert Brown

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on. — Tony Shalhoub

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union. — Bill Shorten

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. — Daniel Day-Lewis

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. — Lance Loud

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference. — Miuccia Prada

My mom giggled and whacked Dick with a dish towel. I would have whacked him harder with the cutting board, but that was just my preference. — Eileen Cook

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference. — Serinda Swan

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another. — Christine Baranski

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement. — John Wooden

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. — George Eliot

We have to judge all evidence with the same amount of scrutiny. We want truth, not confirmation of whatever our preference is. — Lewis N. Roe

Give preference to things of the greatest lasting value. — Steven Redhead

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes. — Marsha Blackburn

I dont care what your race is. Or what your fandom is, or what your Sexual preference is.
The Fact is i still hate everyone. — Me

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything. — Idries Shah

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks