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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee. — Marcus Aurelius

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. — Otto Von Bismarck

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. — Arthur Murphy

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA. — Arthur Caplan

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. — Brian Greene

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless. — Michael Sandel

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — Murray Bookchin

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest. — James Russell Lowell

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life. — Epictetus

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. — Roberto Benigni

Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it — Sunday Adelaja

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler. — Kevin Focke

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants. — John Harsanyi

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law. — Eric Schneiderman

However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism. — Truman Capote

3 things that should not be fought in this world, namely the Government, The Rich and the Madman — Bambang

Principle will, in ... most ... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson

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

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first. — John Maynard Keynes

There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money. — O.J. Simpson

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do. — Hendrik Hertzberg

I don't think that has to be our choice ... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle. — Alan Keyes

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. — Terence

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence. — Bashar Al-Assad

With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it. — Auliq Ice

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. — Bell Hooks

When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything. — Alexandre Dumas

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Arthur C. Clarke

All actions start with emotions and in this principle we find the key to change — Daniel Marques

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent. — Swami Vivekananda

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people. — J. William Fulbright

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. — Viviane Reding

If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds. — Noam Chomsky

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins. — Gideon Haigh

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle. — Ivan Klima

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. — Marshall McLuhan

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination. — Vladimir Putin

To function in the original intention is to adhere to spiritual principles — Sunday Adelaja

A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm — Germaine De Stael

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness. — John Searle

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket. — Robert A. Heinlein

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. — Miyamoto Musashi

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail. — Frances Ridley Havergal

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. — Lord Chesterfield

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. — Jacques Barzun

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Buddha

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man. — William Ames

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington

Had always believed an immersive virtual reality afterlife was possible in principle. Maybe — Ken MacLeod

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. — Tom Clancy

The number of matter quanta in a given region or state is limited by the Exclusion Principle. — Rodney A. Brooks

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

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle. — Tom Coburn

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. — D.H. Lawrence

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal. — Julian Bond

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity. — Ezra Taft Benson

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power ... — Joseph Sobran

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain. — Donny Deutsch

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. — Herbert Read

As I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that. — William James

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no. — E. J. W. Barber

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. — Tony Abbott

Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. — Paulo Coelho

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good. — Fulton J. Sheen

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world. — Robert Kiyosaki

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. — Theodor Adorno

The regulative principle may therefore be seen, in a particular sense, as a natural inference from the doctrine of total depravity. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

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. — Stan Musial

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. — Cynthia Kenyon

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. — Alan Davies

The principle component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition. — Charles F. Glassman

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology. — Boris Sidis

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts. — Gloria Steinem

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. — William James

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free ... — Adolf Hitler

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord. — John Nelson Darby

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life. — Albert Einstein

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary. — Alan Davies

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. — John Hersey

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. — Margherita Hack

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. — Christopher Hayes

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle. — George Hearst

And that principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become words! — Mike Dooley

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem

Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That — Thomas S. Kuhn

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. — Stefan Molyneux

In the Kural there is a chapter on invocation to God. But there is no place in it for principle of idol worship. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is. — Andy Cohen

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. — Norman Lamm

Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force" remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare. — Mao Zedong

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. — Charles Spurgeon

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. — William James