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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.
I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
I have not been able in one lecture even to scratch the surface of the role of maximum principles in analytic economics.
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.
Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.
I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles.
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same principles.
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.
I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.