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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Aristotle
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson
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Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson
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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell
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Which is preferable? It depends on who you ask here.

Chris Snyder
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

Orrin Hatch
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This negotiated resolution with the governor is far preferable for our company and our employees and for our customers than is going into bankruptcy.

John Bryson
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Will Rogers
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If honesty is the best policy, surely Michigan's accurately described, fully disclosed college affirmative action program is preferable to achieving similar numbers through winks, nods and disguises.

Judy Woodruff
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It's very hard these days to be a single, do-it-all company without partnerships and collaborations. To the extent it happens in the state, it would be preferable. It's a global, competitive environment.

Joe Migliaccio
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Richard Steele, Sr.
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What we'd like to encourage companies to do is allow the building to warm up a couple of degrees, and have people wear short sleeves. That's preferable than paying too much to cool a building down.

Alan Hedge
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz
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While it is certainly a step in the right direction, it would be preferable to extend company policy to include partners and officers.

Heather Taylor
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The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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And sooner is preferable to later, ... by fall, depending on the issues, it can almost be too late sometimes.

Karen Smith
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It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

Robert Downey, Jr.
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Gary Becker
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It's preferable to invite Cuba than to exclude it.

Rafael Caldera
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We at Southern California Edison continue to believe that working out a comprehensive solution to our current crisis is a preferable course to take.

John Bryson
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I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Neil Leblanc
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Given that there is the control order system in existence, it would be preferable for that system to be used against the persons concerned until suitable memoranda have been achieved.

Lord Carlile
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It would have been preferable to carry it out in the country itself, inside America. He was in agreement.

Ahmed Ressam
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Settlement is almost always preferable to litigation.

Mark Palmer
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas
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Increasing omega-3 fatty acid intake through foods is preferable.

Alice Lichtenstein
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A lot of poor people are leaving their countries to go to rich countries. Isn't it preferable, isn't it cheaper, to pay so that these people have water, sewage, energy, to keep open the possibility for them to stay in their (own) countries?

Loic Fauchon
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