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“In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.”

Self Lasts Christ Sin Principles Arms Overcoming Salvation Driven Denial Renunciation Self-denial Forsaken Grounding Citadels

Book:BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

Source: BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.”

Long Hard Whole Reality Pleasure Principles Succeed Ego Overcoming Method Instinct Starting Educate Persist Organisms Employed

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.”

May Important Action Energy Goal Principles Amount Overcoming Keep Going Momentum Inertia Activate

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.”

Years Different Matter Feelings Seems Age Principles Week Shots Overcoming Photograph Shakes Retiring Peers Ambiguity Seducing Separating Illusory Dislocation Different Ages

Author:Max Kozloff

“In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.”

Way Helping Problem Attention Principles Focus Higher Overcoming

Author:Radhanath Swami

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

Book:The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes

Source: The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes

“And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.”

Way Believe Long Hard Helping Shows Problem Dream Seems Lying Chance Behinds Principles Thousand Prove Overcoming Blind Solve Coincidence Our Dreams

Author:Richard Bach

“The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.”

Men Real Existence Principles Ego Overcoming Bounds Opposition Free Man

Book:On Being Human

Source: On Being Human

“I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.”

Self Form Given Force Principles Impossible Higher Overcoming Structure Unity Definitions Defined Destructive Self Destructive Definition Of Love

Book:Sozialphilosophische und Ethische Schriften

Source: Sozialphilosophische und Ethische Schriften

“In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.”

Ifs May Matter Seems Used Principles Teach Overcoming No Matter What Fundamentals Defeat Convinced Contrary Opponents Sheer Inferiors Brutes Pupils Fundamental Principles Judo

Author:Kano Jigoro

“A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Happens Certain Strong Principles Practice Air Mankind Lovers Overcoming Democratic Humanitarian Shirts Humankind Baths Fresh Air

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.”