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“The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.”

Simple Results Principles Periods Flow Profit Selling Buying Consistent Courageous Formulas Application Investors Anxious Spectacular Foolproof

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.”

People Able Turns Principles Century Design Theory Revolution Proud Periods Computer Worthy Significant Developing Looking Back Interfaces Footnotes

Author:Jef Raskin

“When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them”

Desire Known Principles Subjects Periods Institutions Structure Arrangements

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Should Years Firsts Long Two Important Principles Particular Periods Taxes Constant Related Steady Expansion Revenue Public Service

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.”

States Nations Decision Principles Periods Majority Decadence Parliamentary

Author:Adolf Hitler

“In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.”

Men Poetry Natural Principles Youth Revolution Periods Daughter France Abandoned Adopted Bad Man French Revolution Wordsworth Good Poetry

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”

Seems Social Moral Principles Periods Universal Agree Foundation Medicine Evolve Social Change Harmonious Social Life Reconstruction Looming Demolition

Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.”

Mean Two Important Hands Political Principles Subjects Judging Periods Degrees Checks Tendencies Branches Voting Statesmen Legislature

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.”

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.”

World Firsts Age Father Half Accepting Principles Middle Periods Succeed Architecture Circles Employed Middle Ages Gothic

Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election campaign, this transition period in the United States of America follows democratic principles and is all about the American people. It's about the destiny of the American people.”

People Ifs Firsts May States America United Principles Destiny United States Periods Tough Election Democratic Campaigns Spite Transition Impressed United States Of America

Author:Angela Merkel

“According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.”

People Firsts Long States Individual Interest Principles Stage Periods Historical Productions Socialism Enthusiasm Communism Labour Collectives Socialist Practise

Author:Deng Xiaoping