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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David ByrneHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouIf you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Lao TzuLeave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore RooseveltPlagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
Dave GrohlIn wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David ThoreauWhich painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard ShawIf future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
George W. BushEducate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas JeffersonThe most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph AddisonOnce you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
Erma BombeckGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John MuirWithout libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray BradburyBehold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
Charles SpurgeonEconomic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Herbert HooverAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleGood fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis BaconA disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund BurkeThis self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
VoltaireNature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGenius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander PopeJohn Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac AsimovI can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
Alice WalkerA people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
Alice WalkerI understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
Abraham LincolnOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnIn giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham LincolnIf there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln