Preservation Of Life Quotes

• From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

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  Nikola Tesla

  Mean   Blessing   Views  

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Preservation of life is the only true joy.

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  Albert Schweitzer

  True Joy   Preservation Of Life   Life Is  

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• The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

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  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women   Responsibility   Rights  

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.98, Grove Press

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• When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

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  Clara Zetkin

  Life   Fighting   Men  

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• It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

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  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance   Greatness   Animal  

  "'De Potentia' ('On Power')". Book by Thomas Aquinas, q. 3, art. 6, ad 4, dhspriory.org.

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• Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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  Voltaire

  Love   Self   Anorexia  

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

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  Dan Inosanto

  Love   Life   Motivational  

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