{"quotes":[{"text":"The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...If any.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["dislike","earth","mother-earth","preservation"],"id":14204,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["awareness","battles","choice","enemies","illusion","others","peace","people","preparation","preservation","protection","readiness","strength","survival","the-art-of-war","war","wisdom"],"id":32667,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era.","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["changing-times","conservation","digital","digital-age","era","new","news","newspapers","obscene","obscenity","paper","preservation","print","reality","save","save-the-world","technology","technology-change","time-changes","times","wastage","wood","world"],"id":37102,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["governments","monopoly","myths","preservation","violence"],"id":52321,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Is there a problem, Ms. Parker? Something you want to say to me?' Reaching for his tie, he began to loosen it, unraveling it with his fingers, angry eyes still locked on mine.'I'm not sure I like being your pet. Or science project, I don't know which.'You have a smart mouth.'You make smart observances.'You're going to make this invitation difficult, aren't you?'If you're dishonest with me, yes.'You'll regret it if you don't accept.'Is that a threat?'That's a promise.","author":"Rachael Wade","tags":["contemporary-romance","drama","love","love-hate-relationship","preservation","rachael-wade","romance","teacher-student-love"],"id":61458,"author_id":"Rachael+Wade"},{"text":"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives. ","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["libraries","permanence","preservation"],"id":76465,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","airlines","bail","bail-out","banker","bankers","banking","banking-system","banks","best-leader","big-business","big-pharma","bipartisan","blood","books","brave","bravery","bribe","bridges","build-bridges","capitalism","censor","censorship","chaos","character","citizen","common-man","companies","confident","confident-leader","conscience","conservation","convergence","corporations","corrupt","corruption","country","critic","criticism","criticsm","darkness","decisionmakers","decison-makers","democrat","destruction","diplomacy","diplomatic","discriminate","discrimination","dissent","diversity","divide","divides","division","doctor","doctors","education","educators","election","elections","employment","environment","environmental","environmentalism","environmentalist","equality","ethnic-tolerance","fair","fairness","families","farmer","fear","for-the-people","foreign-relations","freedom","freedom-of-speech","funding","furture","future-leaders","good-leader","government","government-corruption","great-leader","great-leadership","great-nation","greatness","greed","guide","hands","hate","hatred","health-care","heart-driven","hearts","homes","honest","honest-broker","honorable","human-condition","human-life","humanity","humans","humble","hypocrisy","identify","ignorance","immaturity","immorality","improvement","incentives","indentifies","inspire","integrity","intellectualism","intelligent","job","jobs","justice","law","lawlessness","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-traits","libraries","library","lie","lies","lobbyist","losing","love","make-america-great-again","man-on-the-street","mankind","monetary","monetary-profit","money","money-driven","morality","mortage","mortages","multinational","nation","oil","oil-tycoon","peace","peaceful","peacekeeper","peacemaker","peacemakers","people","pharma","pharmaceutical","pick-a-leader","picking-sides","political-science","politics","preservation","president","presidential","protection","public","race","race-tolerance","racism","religious-tolerance","republican","school","schools","scrutiny","secrecy","security","segregation","selecting","serves-the-people","silencing-dissent","sly","society","speech","spending","stability","street","street-level","strong","teacher","teachers","team","terror","tolerance","tolerate","transparency","truth","truthfulness","understand","understanding","unite","unites","uniting","unity","vote","voter","voting","walls","war","we-the-people","weapons","wisdom","word"],"id":77345,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["explore","fear","freedom","frightened","grow","growth","infinite","life","limitations","limits","new-year","preservation","preserve","self","self-preservation"],"id":77502,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","belief","beliefs","deep","dictum","dictums","endurance","endure","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humour","ignorance","ignorant","insightful","knowledge","knowledgeable","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","misbelief","misbeliefs","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","preservation","preserve","problem","problems","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","retire","retired","retirement","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","social","social-ill","social-ills","societal","society","stamina","stupid","stupidity","thought-provoking","thoughtful","wisdom","wise","young"],"id":100171,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["communication","preservation","suicide"],"id":100714,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}