Ernest Holmes Quotes

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

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• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
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  • Rich

• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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  • Alike

• Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Faith
  • Bible
  • Principle

• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Difference

• I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Country
  • Travel

• In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Opinion

• The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Value
  • Will
  • Principle

• Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • More
  • Religions

• The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Always
  • Principle
  • Useful

• The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Evolution
  • Principle
  • Dogma

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Being
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• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Success
  • Party
  • Tea

• It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • Time
  • Work
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• It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
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  • Principle
  • Nudity

• Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Mankind

• Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Laws
  • Principle

• Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Government
  • Equality

• Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Act
  • Principle
  • Universal Law

• But the censorship itself admits that it is not an end in itself, that it is not a good in and of itself, that it is therefore based on the principle that “the end sanctifies the means.” But an end that needs unholy means is not a holy end.81 Besides, Marx argues, the maxim always works both ways as a justification: if the censorship can plead the goodness of its ends as justification for what it does, then so can the (antigovernmental) press.

  

  Hal Draper
  • Principle
  • Censorship
  • Marx

• Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • People
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  • Thinking

• In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Principle
  • Religions
  • Differ