Principles Quotes
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The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.
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Principle is a passion for truth.
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The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...
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Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.
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It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
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The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
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I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
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The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
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The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
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I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.
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Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
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What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.
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Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.
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There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
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To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
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But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.
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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
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The intellectual world of my time alienated me intellectually. It was a Babel of false principles and blind cravings, a zoological garden of the mind, and I had no desire to be one of the beasts. —George Santayana
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The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.
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I always say, be human and preach humanity. I started my humanitarian service by strictly observing four principles: truth, simplicity, hard-work and punctuality, and I repeat, be human, preach humanity and adopt humanity.
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I would one day discover the principles of opening your own restaurant were pretty much the same: take care to create an excellent, consistent menu and treat your customers well.
