He is not so badly preserved himself.
He knows his job, he really does what you ask him to do and he preserves himself.
"Khodorkovsky preserved himself," Mr. Berezovsky said, almost admiringly, to a columnist for Forbes's Russian edition on Friday, the day before his apparent suicide.
He dropped out of the Olympics, presumably to preserve himself for the U.S. Open, but now he won't be in New York for the first time since 2002.
("Grace had me pinned in the parlor, talking about the superiority of European lace, while Dr. Hemingway hovered with a plate of cheeses and beets he'd preserved himself, from his garden in Walloon Lake").
Unlike the other Yankee starters, Cone uses spring training to rebuild his arm strength, rather than begin throwing in early January, to preserve himself for the last months of the season.
And so Spinoza sums up his account of virtue like this: "the more each one seeks his own advantage, and strives to preserve himself, the more he is endowed with virtue, or what is the same, the greater is his power of acting according to the laws of his own nature, that is, of living from the guidance of reason.
Another tradition, however, says that he only theorized about suspension of judgments, and took action to preserve himself and otherwise lead a normal life, but doing so without any judgments as to natural good and bad.
The individual egoism of the Ethics plays itself out in a pre-political context the so-called "state of nature", a universal condition where there is no law or religion or moral right and wrong as the right of every individual to do whatever he can to preserve himself.
Rob, so close to being fired last week, knowing he's on his last leg, seizing the moment in a last-ditch effort to preserve himself, rises from his chair and points directly at the flipboard – "This isn't a candle," he says, confidence swelling over into an unprompted Jeremy Clarkson impression.
