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“For not all things are practicable on identical principles”

“Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.”

Principles Style Perfection Arise Prescriptions Approved Usage Propriety

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.”

Giving Should Wells May Matter Principles Subjects Architecture Significance Architect Demonstration

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.”

May Made Principles Produce Notes Size Theatre Mathematical Touched Fourth Investigation Fifth Vessel Bronze

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.”

States Principles Victory Machines Opposition Architect Cunning

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.”

Ifs Men World Humans Has Beens Country Hard Stories Social Powerful Known Moral Principles Century Battle Oil Our Country Predator Inhuman Humiliate Petroleum

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.”

Source: The Shah's story

“Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.”

Religion Principles Duty Missions Masterpiece

Book:Outlines of Philosophy and Literature

Source: Outlines of Philosophy and Literature

“Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.”

Trying Humans May Lasts Political Hate Next Perfect Enemy Principles Practice Century Human Nature Theory Republican I Hate Experiments Admire Republic

Author:Robert Walpole

“It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.”

Men Play Sports Principles Deception Deceiving Nature Of Man

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.”

May Beautiful Women Principles Flower Fairs Driven Fixed Streams Breeze Floats Beautiful Women

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.”

Principles Characteristics Neglect Reckless Semblance Adherence

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.”

Dies Winning Principles Hero Battle Heroic

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.”

Political Politics Principles Errors Infinity Adopted

Author:Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

“Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.”

Ideas Principles Modern Achieve Mathematics Fusion Analytics Basic Principles Geometric

Author:Jean Dieudonne

“The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.”

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802

“Principles have a way of yielding to power.”

Way Principles

Author:Bette Lord

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.”

Men Government America Principles Military Profound Amendments Civilians Second Amendment American Government

Author:William O. Douglas

“To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.”

Politics Principles Democracy Authority Treats Mere Definitions Opponents Betray Totalitarianism Subversive

Author:Jean Francois Revel

“That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.”

People May Has Beens Whole Government Opinion Principles Written Limits Authority Bases Constitution Originals Fundamentals Forgotten Supreme Defined Permanent Fabric Mistaken Legislature

Author:John Marshall

“We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.”

Firsts Government Principles Power Constitution Federal Government

Author:William Rehnquist

“What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.”

Evil Language Justice Liberty Principles Cases Taken Clear Danger Serious Degrees Constitution Command Scope Utterance Explicit

Author:Hugo Black

“Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.”

Men May Whole Truth Able Lying Principles Fool Every Man Coward Honour Refuge Cunning Prudence Whole Truth Perfidy

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.”

Ifs Persons Made Pain Desire Names Given Principles Universal Praise Vanity If I Could Admiration Confession Indifferent Secrecy Applause Snuff

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.”

May Long Ends Self Age Death Purpose Wish Principles Obvious Rational Old Age Thread Preservation Wretched Innate Rotten Endeavour Self Preservation Remnants

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.”

Whole Pay Principles Fashion Ready Taste Quiet All Things Dresses Simplicity Gentleman Exquisite Avoidance Extravagant Tailors Neatness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.”

Social Principles Graves Flats Suspects Sole Commonwealth Social Equality

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.”

World Believe Has Beens Truth Passion Principles Our World Pillars

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.”

Community Liberty Principles Security Doom

Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth

Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth

“My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.”

Two Government Religion Interest Church Religious Principles

Author:Lajos Kossuth

“Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.”

Law Justice Principles Progress Development Succeed Eternal Prejudice Errors Contrary Doctrine Immortal

Book:Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

“It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.”

Writing Stories Principles Mines Late

Author:John le Carre

“I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.”

Firsts Simple Principles Study Childhood Lisp

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.”

Philosophy Law Force Principles Study Conditions Philosophical Mathematical Relate

Book:The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Source: The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.”

World Looks Light Faces Interest Principles Break Practice Bears Quitting Modesty Incline

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.”

“Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.”

Should Soul Principles Repose

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.”

Reality Kids Principles Wife Duty Husband Divorce Assumption Buried Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.”

Left Known Principles Ought Property Notes

Author:William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.”

Made Hours Principles Land Civilization Trials Columbus

Author:Chauncey Depew

“But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.”

Source: Club and society addresses

“Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?”

Ifs Body Principles Watches Movement Your Body Observers Watchers Basic Principles

Author:Rajneesh

“The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.”

People Political Term Principles Claims Spite Etiquette Political Correctness Adapted Correctness Disapproval Enlargement

Book:Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)

Source: Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)

“A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.”

Men Pleasure Principles Vain Wicked Presumptuous

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.”

Principles Cost Dollars Investing Average Guilty Analysis Measurement Active Management

Author:William Forsyth Sharpe

“There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.”

Principles Concepts Connections Safety Investing Logical Margins Diversification

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that's consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn't and can't make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.”

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