#preference

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations. ↗

— Virginia Johnson

#orientations #our #preferences #sexual

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
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— Jarod Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#hunger #hungry #main-course #preference #inspirational

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

#best picture #brothers #i #king #least

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

#like #most #prefer #preference #read

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#convictions #firm #give #hold #preferences

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#day #front #preference #someone #sticks

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart