Principle Quotes
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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind.
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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I thought we were fighting for an important principle.
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It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
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This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.
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Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
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I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.
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It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
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Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
