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“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”
Israelmore Ayivor
“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch“God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem“The merely conscious being does not have a preference for continued life. Perhaps while having a pleasurable experience it has a preference for that experience to continue, or while having a painful experience it has a preference for that experience to end, but it will not have any preferences for the long-term future, and the desires it has do not survive periods of sleep or temporary unconsciousness, because unlike a self-aware being, it has no conception of its own future existence after a period of sleep. Thus if we are concerned only about the thwarting of preferences, for a merely conscious being, painless killing and administering an anesthetic seem to be equivalent. Killing does not thwart any more desires than putting the being to sleep. The being will be able to continue to satisfy its preferences after it awakes, but from the being's subjective perspective it is as if a new being, with new preferences, came into existence.”
Peter Singer, Practical Ethics“To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.”
Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk“If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.”
George Ade“Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.”
Stanislaw Lem“Perfect is a Preference, Not! a possibility.”
Devin Murphy“Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?”
Wendy Doniger“I would prefer not to.”
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