Quotes on Preservation

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.