#preferred

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#enemy #friend #ignorant #nothing #preferred

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ↗

— Doug Larson

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Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#cried #dilemma #go #greatest #had

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ↗

— Aristotle

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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ↗

— Man Ray

#ask #course #curious #how #i

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#child #citizen #controlling #existence #government

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#except #i #preferred #really #roles

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#built #houses #live #look #preferred

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#case #judge #law #obligation #only