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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up. ↗

— George A. Smith

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It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you. It went with the noiselessness of late night, and only the crickets chirping, the frogs sobbing off in the moist swampland. One of those things in a big jar that makes your stomach jump as it does when you see a preserved arm in a laboratory vat. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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