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One must be humble, one must keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if one wishes to discover the realities of the world. — Sigmund Freud

Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor. — Auliq Ice

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

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. — Edwin Louis Cole

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

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment. — Monty Don

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. — Patti Smith

His cock is big, his sexual preferences are exotic, and he gets off making me do things I'd rather not. — J.A. Huss

They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior. — Timothy Keller

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him. — Walter Mosley

As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone — Rita Stradling

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa. — Gretchen Rubin

Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else. — Rick Warren

There are as many preferences as there are men. — Horace

Recipes are how we learn all the rules, and cooking is knowing how to break them to suit our tastes or preferences. — Shauna Niequist

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite. — Paul Krugman

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. — Ken Wilber

It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved. — Volkmar Sigusch

No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer. — Alan Cohen

To have preferences, but not exclusions. — Voltaire

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

I'm a novelist," Ruth said. "I can't help it. My narrative preferences are all I've got. — Ruth Ozeki

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves. — Alan Hirsch

For one thing, it helps us see the logical consistency of Human preferences for what it is - a hopeless mirage — Daniel Kahneman

When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder. — Charles W. Colson

One may have preferences, but why exclusions? — Madame Du Chatelet

If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high. — Jill Lepore

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

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power. — Nick Hanauer

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience. — Ravi Zacharias

Some people do not like you; that's a given. So what? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences. — Chris Bohjalian

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. — Sandra Day O'Connor

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences. — Ken Keyes Jr.

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. — Ted Cruz

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges. — Danielle LaPorte

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical. — Ed Stetzer

I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India. — Sania Mirza

to second guess your preferences and tastes based upon how others may interpret them is to unduly deny yourself well-earned freedom. — Joseph R. Lallo

what consumers are willing to pay can easily be manipulated, and this means that consumers don't in fact have a good handle on their own preferences — Dan Ariely

The expression of preferences is the essence of love. — Stefan Molyneux

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public. — Andrea Bocelli

But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences. — Jonathan Haidt

I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. — Christopher Hitchens

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations. — Virginia Johnson

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. — Ashly Lorenzana

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally. — Nancy Pearcey

Members of the dying churches really didn't want growth unless that growth met their preferences and allowed them to remain comfortable. — Thom S. Rainer

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes. — Michael Hersch

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true. — Richelle E. Goodrich

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices. — Sathya Sai Baba

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. — Vladimir Putin

We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. — Richard Carlson

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side. — Sting

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

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead

Apparently some of the guys in gay-for-pay really were straight. — Amy Lane

I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences. — Philippa Gregory

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple. — Dolly Parton

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. — Christian Bale

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. — Pauline Kael

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' — Dee Dee Myers

If the gospel is reduced because of our preferences or misunderstandings, we leave ourselves open to heresies and to attacking our brothers-in-arms. — Matt Chandler

I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life. — Simon Conway Morris

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

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority. — William Friedkin

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity. — Bruce Lee

Lenders make their choices with clear preferences: "Africans first, women first, and agriculture first" (Flannery, — Anke Schwittay

Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences. — Lisa Randall

My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. — Rumi

It [The Kingdom] is not defined by human preferences or cultural values or attitudes, but is "righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. — Kirby Clements Senior

As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets. — W.Chan Kim

The way is light and fluid for the man with
no preferences. — Laozi

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. — Marvin Olasky

Life is a random sequence of actions and reactions of people's preferences and decisions they take to achieve their preferences. — Vivek Thangaswamy

In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are. — Hank Stuever

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

Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions. — Robert Lane Greene

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. — Lavrenti Lopes

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences. — Kim John Payne

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

Labels confine as much as they define. Remember that when you discuss people and preferences. Likes and dislikes speak of who you aren't, too. — Nick Shamhart

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other. — Susan Orlean

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges. — Piers Anthony

Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences. — Maria Erving

My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me... — Virginia Alison