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Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.
Presentation
Judy Moreo

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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Autonomy
Kwame Nkrumah

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Reality
Jean Rostand

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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Paradise
Jean Rostand

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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Reputation
Helen Rowland

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Unhappiness
George Santayana

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The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Choice
Zen Saying

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.
Life and Living
Johann G. Seume

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I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
Choice
Marina Sirtis

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Books - Reading
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Justice
Socrates

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Failure
Sophocles

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Mistakes
Jeremy Taylor

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If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
Success
Source Unknown

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.
Business
Source Unknown

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Dissent
Alice Walker

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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Paradise
Simone Weil

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun