Principle Quotes
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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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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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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
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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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Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.
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Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and tribal members, this means that the authority of tribal governments must be accorded the respect and support to which they are entitled under the law. It means that American Indian children and youth must be provided a solid education and the opportunity to go on to college. It means that more must be done to stimulate tribal economies, create jobs, and increase economic opportunities.
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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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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.
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Confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle that judging is different from politics.
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I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.
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We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
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It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.
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The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
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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 more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
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Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."
