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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
Decision
Indecision
Risk
Wrong
Wrong Decision
Terror
Preferable
Chance
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
War
Religion
Humanity
States
Destroys
Greatest
Afflict
Families
Scourge
Any
Plague
Preferable
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
Delay
Error
Preferable
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
Enemy
Dangerous
Nothing
More
Without
Friend
Discretion
Than
Prudent
Preferable
Even
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
Action
Chaotic
Orderly
Inaction
Preferable
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
Experience
Has-Been
Must
Take
Adult
Mere
Term
Issue
Been
Child
Infinitely
Preferable
Company
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emil Cioran
Proving
Than
Preferable
Means
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
Truth
Ignorance
Nothing
He
Wrong
Remote
Error
Than
Preferable
Less
Who
Believes
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
Yanis Varoufakis
You
Simple
Negotiation
Enter
Possibility
Logic
Never
Conceive
Leaving
Dictates
Cannot
Preferable
Then
Even
I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.
Aidan Gillen
Good
Me
Before
Something
Part
Between
Genres
Go
Done
Going
Different
After
Preferable
Different Genres
Really
Differentiate
A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
Bernie Sanders
Party
President
Says
More
Only
Voters
Most
Insurance
Provide
Than
American
Preferable
Far
Million
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
Charles Inglis
Government
Others
Our
Saviour
Neither
Some
Due
His
Nor
Where
Decided
Cannot
Forms
Preferable
Preference
Doubted
Apostles
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
Other
State
Types
Punishment
Fine
Fines
More
Also
Because
Revenue
Offenders
Imprisonment
Efficient
Preferable
E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.
J. A. Konrath
Buy
You
Paper
Press
Cases
Delivered
Cheaper
Instantly
Preferable
Them
Many
Button
Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.
Joan Collins
Time
Light
Coffee
Three
Long
Big
Stretching
Mac
Minutes
Eating
Week
Takes
Weights
Exercises
Surely
Doing
Fish
Salad
Big Mac
Times
Eggs
Same
Scrambled
Tuna
Break
Preferable
Toast
Floor
Amount
Demand to know the school's accreditation. Regional accreditation is preferable to national, particularly if you want to transfer credits. Check with the certifying association or potential employer in your field to ensure successful completion of the program will actually qualify you for that job.
Lisa Madigan
You
School
Will
Job
National
Field
Completion
Ensure
Potential
Check
Demand
Know
Particularly
Employer
Qualify
Want
Transfer
Regional
Preferable
Successful
Your
Actually
Credits
Program
Association
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
Mary Astell
Good
Before
Few
Lasting
Temporary
Principles
Private
Public
Preferable
Preferred
Reason
Many
Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
Najib Razak
Prosperity
Rather
Divide
Share
Alternative
Than
Infinitely
Preferable
Us
Agreeing
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Orrin Hatch
Today
Government
Internet
Tomorrow
Government Regulation
Hand
Effective
Antitrust
Heavy
Preferable
Enforcement
Regulation
Vigilant
I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
Padma Lakshmi
Cooking
Before
Other
Top
Top Chef
Draw
Eye
About
Area
Had
Learned
Chef
How
Been
Years
Camouflage
Model
Eight
Preferable
Certain
Body
Shows
Seasons
Thing
Two
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
Per Petterson
Good
Me
Blame
Matter
Long
First
Slightly
Would
Kinds
About
Seems
Both
Like
Reader
Although
Does
Always
Quarrel
Expected
Common
Which
Disjointed
Storytelling
Prefer
Preferable
Straight
Epic
Naturalistic
Who
Her
I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.
Rachel McAdams
Love
Character
You
Try
Looking
Shoes
Just Be
Clothes
Cute
Christian
Wigs
Those
Pretty
About
Like
Talk
Dull
Afford
Get
Maybe
Just
Conversations
Little
Preferable
Preliminary
Who
Things
I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.
Rachel McAdams
Love
Character
You
Try
Looking
Shoes
Just Be
Clothes
Cute
Wigs
Those
Pretty
About
Dull
Get
Just
Conversations
Little
Preferable
Preliminary
Who
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.
Rebecca Traister
Life
Remember
Poverty
Important
Single
Married
Married Life
Also
Single Life
Makes
While
Preferable
Might
Much
Certainly
Harder
I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.
Victoria Moran
Vegan
Boots
Find
Fabulous
Could
Option
Preferable
Far
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
William Whipple
Good
Water
River
Abundance
Affords
Preferable
Certainly
Route
Grazing
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