Principle Quotes
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I thought we were fighting for an important principle.
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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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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.
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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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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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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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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 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 thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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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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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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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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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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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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All things as subsist from nature appear to contain in themselves a principle of motion and permanency; some according to place, others according to increase and diminuation; and others according to change in quality.
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
