#preservation

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Self-preservation is the first responsibility. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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Beauty should never lower its guard around Appetite. ↗

— Shay Caroline

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Perfect preservation isn't life, it’s death. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. ↗

— Norm Dicks

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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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