A Quotes
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“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”
Source: Essays or Counsels civil and moral
“A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.”
Source: Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda
“A principle is a decision you only have to make once.”
“A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.”
“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline in order to achieve a specific objective.”
“A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.”
“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.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“A principle is the expression of perfection. Imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection. I shall allow for error in judgment by seeking counsel from all sources of knowledge. Failing is critical for self-growth because it causes a principled person to think. A person’s greatest failures are their portals to discovery. The mind is a fire that a person must kindle; a person must seek constant development in order to stave off intellectual, spiritual, and moral morbidity. A person cannot apply any principle to guide human behavior without testing its concept against present realities or it will result in absurdities.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.”
“A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our existence reassures us that how we live does make a difference. Because our allotted time for living is finite, we must make the most of each day.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.”
“A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.”
Source: Typographie
“A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.”
“A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it”
“A printing press took the thoughts from someone’s mind and inked them on to a piece of paper anyone might read. It was a kind of magic. A magic to alter the world.”
Source: Enchantée
“a priori knowledge such as mathematics or logic is general, whereas all experience is particular.”
“A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order created by Newton's theory of gravitation...is wholly different. Even if the axioms of the theory are proposed by man, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world.... That is the "miracle" which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.”
“A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.”
“A priority list with GOALS is much better than a priority list with people.”
“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”
“A prison cell of silver and silk is still a prison, isolating and solitary.”
Source: Swarm
“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that
the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.”
“A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.”
Source: Alias Grace: A Novel
“A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.”
“A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“A prison will appear like heaven to those who are in hell.”
“A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.”
“A prisoner hears, “You are sentenced to life”; Nazareth felt that now, more sharply than she had ever had to feel it before. But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need.”
Source: Native Tongue
“A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.”
Source: Foxe's Book Of Martyrs
“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.”
“A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..”
“A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.”
Source: Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty
“A prisão não está no exterior e, sim, no interior de cada um de nós. É possível que não saibamos viver sem ela.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.”
“A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”
“A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.”
“A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.”
“A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.”
“A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.”
“A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.”
“A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.”
Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890