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Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
Monetary union must be oriented towards the needs of citizens and must balance the principles of responsibility and solidarity more effectively.
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.
The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.
This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.
Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.
There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience.
When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.
Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ.
I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
[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
You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.
We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.
One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.
Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways.