Principle Quotes
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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
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
Aaron Allston
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
Morgan Freeman
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Lao Tzu
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
Isaac Newton
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter
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The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
Catharine Beecher
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But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar Wilde
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It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
Norbert Wiener
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Today's action means the core principle of protecting women's health as guaranteed by Roe v. Wade is in clear and present danger.
Nancy Keenan
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
Rabih Alameddine
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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
Barack Obama
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The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
Alex Grey
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My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
Larry Fitzgerald
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It's not about the money. It never was. The fundamental principle is, the guy loves this whole thing.
Paul Wachter
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.
Antoine Lavoisier
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The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
African Spir