Lionel Messi

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

Argentinian Footballer

Joyce Meyer

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

American Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Scottish Writer

Khalil Gibran

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Lebanese Poet

Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

English Activist

Ben Carson

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

American Scientist

Katya Zamolodchikova

It's a social life, or time to read the comment section: I prefer social life.

American Entertainer

Francois Truffaut

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

French Director

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

German Theologian

Kamala Harris

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

American Vice President

Use 'prefer' to express likes in a polite and indirect way, showing you have a choice.

Expressing Preferences

'Prefer' often involves a comparison between two things, indicating a favorite.

Comparative Preference

'Prefer' can suggest choices in a gentle way, without demanding.

Gentle Suggestions

'Prefer' implies a deliberate choice or a well-considered liking for something.

Conscious Choice

Use 'would prefer' to talk about what you want to do in the future.

Future Decisions

'Prefer' can describe habitual actions or tendencies.

Describing Habits

In law, 'prefer' is used when officially recommending or selecting options.

Legal Recommendations

'Prefer' often signals formal or official endorsement in a professional setting.

Formal Endorsement

 Imagine if you were Betsy. Would you prefer to know the truth? If the answer is yes, you'd be choosing an option that sharply decreases your net pleasure. Perhaps, then, you believe that there are things in life with greater intrinsic value than pleasure. Truth, knowledge, authentic connection with other human beings.

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 Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly

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 Repetition is a feature that music from cultures around the world tends to share. So, why does music rely so heavily on repetition? One part of the answer come from what psychologists call the mere-exposure effect. In short, people tend to prefer things they've been exposed to before.

Why we love repetition...

 Out of these three, only one prefers the blood of mammals, and even these bats mostly feed on cattle. Maybe that still doesn't seem so great, but vampire bats can be a great help to humans. A chemical known as desmoteplase found in vampire bat saliva helps break down blood clots,

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 It is a way of preserving the reef and dedicating ourselves to something else, They began to prefer transporting tourists because they knew they got paid well and they consumed less fuel. Besides, they were home early and that's what encouraged them to give up the fishing.

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 Earth's infrared radiation would escape to space if there weren't greenhouse gas molecules in our atmophere. Just as oxygen gas prefers the dark red photons, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases match with infrared photons. They provide the right amount of energy

How quantum mechanics...

 Without the caregiver, they wouldn't survive, so it stands to reason that nature would endow them with these mechanisms of survival. They orient to the caregiver. From the first days and weeks of life, babies prefer to hear human sounds,

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 Law number power is like water. It flows like a current through everyday life. Politics is the work of harnessing that flow in a direction you prefer. Policymaking is an effort to freeze and perpetuate a particular flow of power.

How to understand power...

 Piggy's learned how to say milk so she doesn't prefer milk meow meow yeah what is it nice and when are cats meow there's one thing that almost every owner in the study said they did did you go hunting today talk back good to go

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 violence causes trauma all over the world and I'd like to talk to you about how people telling their own stories can stop violence in their lives and in the lives of others most of us would prefer