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I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.

While speaking to Awami League leaders a few hours before his arrest on the night of 25th March, 1971, "Sheikh Mujib: Triumph and Tragedy" by S. A. Karim, 2005.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.764, Jazzybee Verlag

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.490

What destroys one man preserves another.

Pierre Corneille (2015). “Chief Plays of Corneille”, p.176, Princeton University Press

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

"A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement". Book by Cary D. Rostow and Robert D. Davis, p. 18, 2004.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Thomas L. Friedman (2002). “Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11”, p.48, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3049, Bantam

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Samuel R. Delany (2014). “The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—“Angouleme””, p.150, Wesleyan University Press

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.164

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Prayers and Meditations, composed by S. Johnson ... and published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan ... The fourth edition”, p.49