#preference

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president. ↗

— Katherine Harris

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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