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Conservation

noun

An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change. Synonym: preservation.

The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources.

(physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations.

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"Conservation" Quotes from Famous Books

... system on the ruins of all previous achievements. Its real task is singularly modest. It aims merely at instructing system-builders in the elementary laws which condition the stability of such structures and conduce to their conservation. ...

— Pragmatism • D.L. Murray

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... suppose, be denied that a rule to the effect that whenever forfeiture of one life would save two, one life should be sacrificed, would—not exceptionally only, but at large and in the long run—conduce to the saving of life, and therefore to the conservation of happiness connected ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

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... who has to deal daily and hourly with nature can trouble himself about a priori difficulties. Give me such evidence as would justify me in believing anything else, and I will believe that. Why should I not? It is not half so wonderful as the conservation of force, or the indestructibility of matter. Whoso clearly appreciates all that is implied in the falling of a stone can have no difficulty about any doctrine simply on account of its marvellousness. But the longer I live the more obvious ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch • Leonard Huxley

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... the compensation of Sarah M. Lilley and Helen L. Smith, teachers of classes for conservation of eyesight, is hereby established at the rate of five dollars and seventy-five cents ($5.75) per day of service for the period January 1 to August ...

— Schedule of Salaries for Teachers, members of the Supervising staff and others. - January 1-August 31, 1920, inclusive • Boston (Mass.). School Committee

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... enemy during these years, until they are driven entirely out of the Orient and your Majesty becomes lord of it all. For if that result be once accomplished, the fruits of that victory will allow sufficient fleets to be maintained, both in these seas and in those, for the defense and conservation of that region and much more. Moreover, in order to check the enemy and to remove completely from their eyes this illusion that has given and gives them so strong a belief that your Majesty's forces are exhausted by the large sums that you ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair

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