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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Folly Preference Wisdom

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

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Bachelorhood British Monarchy British Royal Family Dignity Empowerment Freedom Independence Marriage Matrimony Preference Queens Self Determination Self Reliance Singles Spinsters Women

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

~ Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo Bachelorhood Empowerment Equality Freedom Independence Marriage Matrimony Preference Self Determination Self Reliance Self Sufficiency Singles Submission Women

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

Michael Bassey Johnson Attraction Bed Cash Dough Fancy Handsome Handsomeness Horny Modern Modern Ladies Money Power Powerful Preference Prowess Rumpy Pumpy Screw Screwing Stamina Tiger Today Women

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

~ Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler Approval Criticism Intelligence Preference Thoughtless

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Absolutism Be Yourself Bigotry Books Critics Culture Dislikes Elitism Entertainment Force Inferiority Influence Insincerity Likes Literature Media Movies Music Opinion Peer Pressure Personality Pop Culture Preference Pressure Purists Rebels Sincerity Snobs Superiority Taste

The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

~ Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Ape Apes Belief Evolution Great Ape Great Apes Humanity Humans Man Preference Sacrifice Slavery Superstition Torture

All tastes are expressions of belief.

~ Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith Belief Identity Preference Taste

Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Better Loss Mistake Preference Stingy

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Death cannot be contrary to an interest in continued life any more than birth could be in accordance with an interest in commencing life. To this extent, with merely conscious beings, birth and death cancel each other out; whereas with self-aware beings, the fact that one may desire to continue living means that death inflicts a loss for which the birth of another is insufficient compensation.

~ Peter Singer

Peter Singer Death Ethics Experience Preference Utilitarianism

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself?

~ Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov Conciousness Condemnation Decision Man Peace Preference War

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

~ Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Conversation Odd Thomas Preference Silence

The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

~ Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Cereal Community Consumerism Humility Options Preference Self Centered

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Ludwig Von Mises Anarcho Capitalism Ancap Austrian Economics Austrian School Of Economics Free Free Market Freedom Laissez Faire Libertarian Liberty Markets Nap Non Aggression Principle Preference Subjective Trade Voluntaryism

For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life of some other being, because persons are highly future-oriented in their preferences. To kill a person is therefore, normally, to violate not just one but a wide range of the most central and significant preferences a being can have. Very often, it will make nonsense of everything that the victim has been trying to do in the past days, months or even years. In contrast, beings that cannot see themselves as entities with a future do not have any preferences about their own future existence. This is not to deny that such beings might struggle against a situation in which their lives are in danger, as a fish struggles to get free of the barbed hook in its mouth; but this indicates no more than a preference for the cessation of a state of affairs that causes pain or fear. The behaviour of a fish on a hook suggests a reason for not killing fish by that method but does not in itself suggest a preference utilitarian reason against killing fish by a method that brings about death instantly, without first causing pain or distress. Struggles against danger and pain do not suggest that fish are capable of preferring their own future existence to non-existence.

~ Peter Singer

Peter Singer Death Ethics Preference Utilitarianism

I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to lose by being killed. For this reason, when there is an irreconcilable conflict between the basic survival needs of animals and of normal humans, it is not speciesist to give priority to the lives of those with a biographical sense of their life and a stronger orientation towards the future.

~ Peter Singer

Peter Singer Animals Ethics Preference Utilitarianism

Perfect is a Preference, Not! a possibility.

~ Devin Murphy

Devin Murphy Perfection Possibility Preference

Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we’d love to love and be loved by all.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

Alexandra Katehakis Connection Hatred Love Preference
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