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“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Men Energy Easy Christ Principles Becoming Demand All Things Sake Firm Wickedness Gentleness Energetic Meekness Godlike

Book:Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

“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

“Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.”

Mean Light Life Is Individual Principles Our Lives Aim Distance Mere Yield Rationality Coordinates

Book:The Nature of Rationality

Source: The Nature of Rationality

“I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.”

Mean Has Beens Country Able Principles Economy Thank God Principal Estates Strict Adopting Frugality

Author:George Mason

“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.”

World Way Should Littles Has Beens Found Differences Party Principles Truth Is Importance Absurd Suspicion Compelled Posterity Departure

Author:John Calvin

“Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.”

Firsts Doe Made Ends Known Principles Progress Angel Sentences Acknowledge End Of Life Learners

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)

“So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.”

Source: The American Federationist

“A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.”

People Political Principles Ignorance Citizens Succeed Function Seeking Ignorant Marvelous Political Systems Barbarism Illiterate Illiteracy Barbaric Being Ignorant

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.”

Doe Form Principles Direct Absolutes Infinite Blind Unity Instinct Intuition Guidance Imperatives Manifold

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes.”

Firsts Has Beens Philosophy Use Age Term Natural Party Principles Issues Mathematics Lays Reasoning Branches Mathematician Grounded Disputes Sects Axioms Excluded Sophistry Natural Philosophy

Author:Thomas Reid

“The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.”

Causes Term Principles Understood Fundamentals Accidents History Of Science

Author:Alan Lightman

“Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.”

“The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.”

Pleasure Principles Claims Satisfaction Range Desirable Submission Deprived

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.”

People Long Running Opinion Principles Authority Long Runs Parliament Personal Freedom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.”

“There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.”

Hard Done Certain Causes Principles Harm Fixed Liberalism Creeds Thumbs Insistence Laissez Faire Basic Principles Stationary

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.”

Principles Figures Changed Materials Elements Eternal Fortune Substance Ads Composition Exes Fashionable Altered Complexion

Author:Giordano Bruno

“If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien life-forms, and protect it from deterioration, then we must either allow Nature to rule or, if we wish to intervene, we must first acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of life.”

Ifs Firsts Form Wish Principles Influence Danger Particular Protect Aliens Threatened Simplest Emergence Deterioration Alien Life

Book:The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

“[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.”

Principles Violence Bases Defense Innocent Guilty Doubted

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.”

War Political Force Principles Military Ready Conflict Aim Fundamentals Population Destroyed Revolutionary Portions Adversaries Military Force

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.”

Together Games Wealth Principles Economy Prosperity Zero Global Economy World Economy Guiding Principles Zero Sum Game

Author:Julia Gillard

“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.”

Ifs Men Mind Ideas Whole Principles Subjects Habit Deeper Whole Life Impression Virtuous New Ideas Vicious Assured Barren

Book:Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

Source: Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

“the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.”

Political Class Principles Economy Filled Working Class Political Economy

Book:Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy

“I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.”

World Writing Believe May Has Beens Book Done Young Political I Believe Community Principles Economy Protection Harm Passages Favour Mills Political Economy

Author:Richard Cobden

“I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.”

Way Real Reality Grows Principles Tree Essentials Depth Real Things

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.”

Should Soul Ends Whole God Action Desire Principles Objects Affection Our Actions Governing

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.”

War Ends Hate Fighting Christ Principles Victory Bitter

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.”

“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.”

Wells Remember Found Sound Growth Principles Danger Worship Gold Compromise Certainty Perpetual Tinsel Perpetual Motion

Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations... Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.”

“While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.”

Way Long Stills Facts Principles Democracy Universal Remains Broads Application Long Way Vary Long Way To Go

Author:Boutros Boutros-Ghali

“Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.”

Ifs Humans Happens Humanity Process Human Beings Principles Absolutes Strict Unreliable

Author:David Baldacci

“Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ - radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ - what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.”

Men Together Party Principles Position Agree Consistently Honorable Hold Me

Book:REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

Source: REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

Ifs Littles Results Principles Draws Conclusion Nails Sloppy Sloppiness

Author:Max Delbruck

“At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its Director General. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the Director General has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.”

“I have never opened with the QP - on principle.”

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .”

Ifs Believe Facts Principles Happened Miracle Believe In Miracles

Book:Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

Source: Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

“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

“Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.”

Principles Trouble Streets Wall Needed Investing Forgotten Prudent

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.”

Should States Political Given Principles Cutting Particular Theory Boundaries Nationalism Excluded Legitimacy Contingency

Book:Nations and Nationalism

Source: Nations and Nationalism

“I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.”

Thinking States United Principles United States

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.”

Done Moments Given Can Do Principles Changed Color Praying Letting Go Understood Surrender Release That Moment Purple Changed My Life

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we highlight equality for girls and women - not just women's rights. That is important as girls, especially adolescent girls, have been almost invisible in debates on equal rights. Yet it is in adolescence that events can have a huge effect on a girl's life.”

Humans Has Beens Important Girl Human Beings Principles Rights Effects Events Huge Equal Committed Debate Invisible Womens Rights Adolescence Elders Equal Rights Highlights

Author:Mary Robinson

“We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.”

Needs Values Lines Principles Economic Policy Bottom Humanitarian Bottom Line Worldview Economic Value

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules of war. It should and does follow the Geneva Conventions scrupulously when fighting the armed forces of other nations that have signed the Geneva Conventions or follow their principles.”

Want Should Doe War States Fighting Courses Force Nations United Enemy Principles United States Highest Standards Regard Conventions Armed Forces Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:John Yoo

“Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us.”

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Author:David Gergen

“India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.”

Philosophy Principles Sacrifice Civilization India Upbringing

Author:Narendra Modi

“[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.”

Should Kind Party Principles Democracy Groups Majority All Kinds Devices Representation Parliament Proportional Representation

Author:David Lloyd George