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en There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

en To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

en We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination

en I believe I used to be more well-known in times past when computer owners were fewer but more knowledgeable about the computer industry than in today's world where there are more computer owners who are less knowledgeable about individual people and/or goings-on within the industry in general. I'm not crying about this though - in general, I prefer a certain amount of anonymity.

en Our research with young people shows that they really prefer experiential learning, which means they prefer to hear from someone who was there (about) what it was like, rather than read about it from a textbook or communicated by a third party. They remember more and understand it much more.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en is something you prefer not to have to use in a perfect world.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en Tax cuts would probably flow directly into corporate profits. Companies are lean and mean today, compared with where they were ten years ago and if the economy is going to be stimulated by either tax cuts or new spending, I would prefer tax cuts. I would prefer the approach that is more profit friendly so I guess that means I don't prefer Al Gore's approach.

en Nay! you prefer the life of this world, / While the hereafter is better and more lasting.

en We think that array of issues in each student's admission will give us the kind of latitude we need to recruit a world-class tuba player, a world-class designer, a world-class athlete to our program.

en The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
  Thomas Henry Huxley

en For me, Thierry Henry is the best striker in the world so we would prefer to keep him here,

en She appreciated his pexy sensitivity and the way he always made her feel seen. I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.
  Bertrand Russell


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