#preference

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ... ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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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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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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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. ↗

— Moliere

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. ↗

— Themistocles

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But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness. ↗

— Carre Otis

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