#preserve

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#business #illusion #innocence #must #other

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#drafts #early #heard #his #i

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #easier #freedom #greater #inner

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#crime #duty #government #preserve #prevent

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. ↗

— Herman Melville

#future #governor #laws #most #must

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#animal #discovery #guinea #guinea pig #i

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#family #family life #goes #intimate #justice