Principles Quotes
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The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
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Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
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The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.
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Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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Rise above principle and do what is right.
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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
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That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
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For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.
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“Don’t answer, Marshall. Work it through your principles.” Bradenton smiled. “But in the end, we all know how this will work out. It’s one annoying girl against your entire future. Against the future of voting rights.
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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.
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On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
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If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.
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They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.
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My faith is, that there is a greater amount of revelation given to guide each man by the principles laid down in the Bible, by conscience, and by providence, than most men are aware of. It is not the light which is defective, it is an eye to see it.
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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
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Barack Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
