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The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God — Sunday Adelaja

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave

Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree. — David Whyte

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them. — Sophie Swetchine

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering. — Carolyn Wells

achievement to create the first modern insurance fund, based on correct actuarial and financial principles, rather than mercantile gambling. — Niall Ferguson

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley

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. — Clement Greenberg

I put my country and my principles first. — Michael Gove

Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles — Sunday Adelaja

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law. — William Of Auxerre

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy. — Avro Manhattan

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'" — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. — Elon Musk

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles. — David J. Griffiths

Different first principles make debate impossible. — G.K. Chesterton

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others. — Albert Einstein

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus

HE WORKED IT OUT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ON THE WHITEBOARD — Neal Stephenson

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre. — Elizabeth Blackburn

If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack. — William Shakespeare

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles — Bjarne Stroustrup

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. — Napoleon Hill

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. — William Rehnquist

I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility. — Everett Dirksen

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. — Marie Curie

The first principle of aid is respect. — Ernesto Sirolli

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle. — Stefan Molyneux

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. — Eustace Budgell

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development. — James Prescott Joule

No science ever defends its first principles. — Aristotle.

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody — Dorothy L. Sayers

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. — Everett Dirksen

There's great peace in surrendering to principles — Stefan Molyneux

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles. — Terence McKenna

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living. — Watchman Nee

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do. — Carlos Wallace

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles. — Richard Brookhiser

Throughout my first year in office, I have stood up for principles that will guide our country back toward the path of freedom and prosperity. — Jason Chaffetz

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations ... may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes

A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success. — Richie Norton

I think, by applying our production principles. First, we must identify our limiting step: what is the "egg" in our work? — Andrew S. Grove

Fasting is the first principle of medicine. — Rumi

To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed — Sunday Adelaja

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. — Confucius

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles. — Swami Vivekananda

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use. — Gustave Eiffel

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend. — Alexander Hamilton