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Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.
He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.
A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
The BJP is a large family, and if someone comes to us with a commitment towards our values and principles, then it should not be opposed.
Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.
If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.
Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.
I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.