Michael Faraday Quotes
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Naomi Watts
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
Camille Paglia
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
Gavin Newsom
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
Xavier Becerra
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
Frances Farmer
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
A. J. Cook
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Lajos Kossuth
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Yann Martel
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
Saif Ali Khan
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
Vanessa Hudgens
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase
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I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.
Mike Ross
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Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
Stephen Covey
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These questions that philosophers confront have to be reconfronted in every generation. The problems of philosophy reoccur in different forms.
Alvin Plantinga
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How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
Elizabeth Marie Pope
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Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.
Hanne Blank
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
Michael Faraday