Principles Quotes
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Principles are eternal.
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What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.
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Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
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There are some inordinate desires before which the firmest principles must give way, and which so pervert our moral sense as to render us incapable of judging between right and wrong.
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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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We love your adherence to democratic principles.
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Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
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There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.
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Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
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Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.
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I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.' 'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.' 'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
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If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
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The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.
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“In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.”
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A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.
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I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.
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The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
