Principle Quotes
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While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.
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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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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
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I thought we were fighting for an important principle.
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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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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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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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Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
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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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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 am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.
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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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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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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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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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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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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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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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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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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.
