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“I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.”

People Thinking Important Ideas Principles Staying Idealism Stay True Fresh Ideas

Author:Matt Salmon

“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.”

Different Culture Situation Principles Particular Eternal Universal Manners Distinction Arbitrary Etiquette Different Times Different Cultures

Author:Judith Martin

“I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.”

People Speak Principles Trump Tradition Speaks Out

Author:Gene Robinson

“Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.”

Knows Happens Powerful Principles Worry Behave Most Powerful Users Consistency Usability

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.”

Principles Practice Five Essentials Islam Pilgrimage Mecca Hajj

Author:Karen Armstrong

“This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.”

Country America Certain Liberty Principles Rights Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Inalienable Rights Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Rights To Life

Author:Charles Rangel

“Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.”

Age Language Natural Principles Middle Philosopher Logical Flaws Middle Ages Orderly Idiom

Author:Joshua Foer

“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.”

Principles Technology One Thing Development

Author:Tom Shadyac

“In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.”

Ifs Principles Understood Mechanism

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one”

Principles Higher Office Organization Hierarchy Supervision

Author:Max Weber

“Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.”

States Moral Principles Chickens Foxes Moral Principles Proverbial

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.”

Firsts Past Hate Principles I Hate Biology

Author:Jeremiah P. Ostriker

“There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”

Real Answers Principles Economic Crisis Remove Capitalist Socialist Bricks Rebuilding Economic Crisis

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.”

Ifs Action Choices Moral Principles Our Lives Exercise Blessed Agency Righteous Our Actions Being Blessed

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.”

People Use Principles Empowering Convince Conservation Biodiversity Guiding Principles

Author:Klaus Topfer

“Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.”

Love Principles Missing Cold Palaces Mills Cottages Splendour

Book:Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

“He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.”

Mean Hard Running Funny Together Principles Humorous Slave Labour Toil Cricket Catching Bowling Batting Cricket Match

Book:Bentley's Miscellany

Source: Bentley's Miscellany

“Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.”

Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

“Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.”

Doe Soul Character Action Together Form Poetry Literature Emotion Principles Inspire Noble Helpful Alliances Begets Good Poetry

Book:Matthew Arnold on education

Source: Matthew Arnold on education

“Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.”

Source: Nobody Here But Us Chickens

“The first principle of all action is leisure.”

Firsts Action Principles Leisure

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Scouting contributes to a boy's preparation to hold the priesthood of God. Scout leaders have a sacred responsibility. They help boys learn Scouting principles that also help them live the gospel. We thank each leader as they foster faith in Christ and prepare boys to make temple covenants and become a missionary, husband, and father.”

Helping Father Christ Responsibility Leader Boys Principles Husband Sacred Preparation Temples Missionary Covenant Priesthood Scouting Husband And Father

Author:Rosemary M. Wixom

“Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.”

Ifs Giving Mind Able Principles Cases Special Advantage Instance Exception Knowledgeable

Book:Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.”

Form Principles Constitution Institutions Hostility Central Banks Central Banking

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.”

Ifs Ends Principles Practicals Application Engineering

Book:After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering

Source: After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering

“We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”

“As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.”

Soul Hands Spiritual Spirit Jesus Christ Principles Blood Divine Jesus Christ Lays Merit Spiritual Life Fountain Divine Life

Book:The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes

Source: The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes

“Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.”

Soul Action Spirit Quality Principles Divine Holy Regeneration

Book:The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)

Source: The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)

“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”

Men Spiritual Process Christ Principles Grace Receiving Passive

Book:The marrow of theology

Source: The marrow of theology

“Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.”

Ifs Men Lost Principles Salvation Saved Ruins

Author:J. C. Ryle

“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.”

Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict

“If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.”

Ifs May Important War Ends America Hate Courses Nations Peace Principles Rights Civilization Preserves Agreement Endeavor Tempted Shattered Being Positive Prince Of Peace

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.”

Men May Mean Principles Duty Accomplishment Execution

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.”

Men Firsts Ends God Dream Principles Knowledge Middle Smoke Divinity Beginning Middle And End

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.”

Knows Seems Today Universe Principles Mystery Atheism Positive Atheism Physics Mysterious Visible Horizon Components Basic Principles

Book:Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

“It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.”

Men Should Mind Littles Has Beens Made Two Enough Political Found Born Principles Atheism Greatness Should Have Details Positive Atheism Satisfied Instance Possessed Piety Theological

Author:David Swing

“I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.”

“Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.”

“[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.”

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

“Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.”

Source: Mother Earth Bulletin

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man.”

“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.”

“[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.”

Christian Nations President Principles Imagine Impossible Scary Imagine That Grounded Select

Author:John McCain

“The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.”

Natural Principles Creation Relation Creator Scary Word Of God Selection Natural Selection

Author:Samuel Wilberforce

“People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.”

“One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.”

Trying Believe Strong I Believe President Principles Currents I Believe In Coaches Managers Nfl Owners Always Learning Commissioners General Manager

Author:Roger Goodell

“I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.”

Spiritual Political Speak Social Interest Powerful Principles Issues Areas Sacred Realms Intersections Political Issues

Author:Marianne Williamson

“One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.”

Important Ideas Principles Conditions Produce Live By Contemplating

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.”

Needs Long America Three Can Do Principles Long Time Productions Long Time Ago Consuming Reuse

Author:Wangari Maathai