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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. - Florence Nightingale
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests. - Arthur Middleton
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart. - Edwin Markham
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We have affirmed the principle that a mature relationship between nations - as between individuals - can only flourish in an atmosphere of mutual respect. - John Gavin
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Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. - Tracey Ullman
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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers. - Maurice Allais
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. - Chris Patten
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A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal. - Krystal Ball
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some. - Carolyn Maloney
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I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them. - Ajith Kumar
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I invest in black-led startups not because of a sense of charity. I make those investments because of the basic principle of supply and demand and the reality that black entrepreneurs typically lack the network to have their deals become bid up and overvalued. - Troy Carter
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
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I've always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older, that's meant different things. - Scarlett Johansson
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful. - Dan Webster
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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. - Andrew O'Hagan
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So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy. - Peter L. Berger
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The most cogent principle that can be drawn from traditional limitations on the right to keep and bear arms is that dangerous persons likely to use firearms for illicit purposes were not understood to be protected by the Second Amendment. - Thomas Hardiman
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. - Larry Elder
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I will restore a government based on principle and justice. - Moon Jae-in
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. - L. Neil Smith
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The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. - Ali Khamenei
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We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there. - John Anderson
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. - William Blackstone
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The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle. - Andrew Fastow
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What gets me excited is the original principle. - Heston Blumenthal
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People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money. - Joseph Wapner
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In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases. - Marvin Ammori
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A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one. - Leon Jouhaux
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. - Jasper Fforde
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. - Lajos Kossuth
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us. - LaDainian Tomlinson
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I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance. - Justin Sane
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Bernie Sanders is a serious person with a lifetime of consistent campaigning on principle. - Steve Hilton
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A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. - Joseph Lancaster
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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. - William L. Jenkins
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. - Major Taylor
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I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable? - Craig Hatkoff
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The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?' - Alexander Acosta
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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. - Rutherford B. Hayes
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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). - Rutherford B. Hayes
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We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. - George Wald
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The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State. - Roger B. Taney
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Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic. - Amal Clooney
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Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security. - Yitzhak Rabin
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Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima. - Werner Heisenberg
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. - Aaron Allston
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A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. - Trofim Lysenko
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. - Mahmoud Abbas
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The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. - Christian Morgenstern
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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. - James K. Polk
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Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. - Friedrich List
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The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. - Huey Long
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If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. - Bill Owens
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Democrats can hardly stand on principle regarding election year nominations when they were more than willing to engage in a partisan, election-year impeachment fiasco based on a contrived pretext that had no chance of prevailing. - Tom Fitton
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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy. - Raja Krishnamoorthi
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Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes. - Barry Gardiner
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Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. - John Tyler
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My guiding principle has always been that we do better when we respect one another. - Andy Beshear
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Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency. - Frederick Banting
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually. - Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country. - Paul Ryan
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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. - Rodney Brooks
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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. - Whitfield Diffie
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. - Omar Bongo
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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. - Gregory Bateson
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. - Ferdinand de Saussure
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. - Kenneth L. Pike
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I'm a great believer in the principle of try it and work it out. If a gadget is designed well, you can easily work out how to use it. But if you can't, it isn't shameful to read the instructions. - James May
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. - Garet Garrett
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There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band. - Kate Pierson
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way. - John Berger
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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. - Apollonius of Tyana
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The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ. - John Paul Jones
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There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'. - William Slim
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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. - William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'. - Richard P. Feynman
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. - Noam Chomsky
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As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice. - Mark Zuckerberg
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. - John Ruskin
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. - Henry Ward Beecher
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. - H. P. Lovecraft
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A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. - Thomas Jefferson
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. - Thomas Jefferson
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. - Thomas Jefferson
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote. - Ernest Hemingway
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare. - Barack Obama
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. - Albert Camus
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? - Abraham Lincoln
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. - Mahatma Gandhi
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle. - Mark Twain
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According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness. - John Quincy Adams
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