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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.
The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.
A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.
I have my faith and my principles, and this is what makes me who I am. If the person loves me, he'll love my God too.
A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
There are four principles we really taught: to live passionately, love completely, learn humbly and then lead boldly.
Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.
[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.