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We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about country, use, destruction

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may...

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Quote by Francis Bacon about fame, fire, fire brigade, good, good luck

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Quote by Francis Bacon about rules, wisdom, good, good luck, man

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Quote by Kathy Acker about literary critic, culture

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge...

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Quote by John Adams about liberty, knowledge, people

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge...

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Quote by John Adams about liberty, knowledge, people

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Quote by Joseph Addison about hunger

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about olderness, death, age, old, life, destiny, absolute, time

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the...

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about liberty, unforeseen, life, man

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about proudness, vanity, knowledge

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that...

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about intention, common sense, sense

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Quote by Thomas Paine about war, law, order, use, world

Here then lies the supreme good, it is more than that...

Here then lies the supreme good, it is more than that which takes the disease away from the body and preserves the body.

Quote by Paracelsus about body, good, good luck

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Quote by Richard Burton about recollection, events, memory, dream, man, life

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Quote by Grazia Deledda about faith, christmas, old, end, time

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.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about quiet, fiction, happiness, work, love

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my...

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Quote by John Quincy Adams about liberty, hope, use, good, good luck

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