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“Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.”

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.”

Source: Against Method

“What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?”

Men Doe Universe Principles Kindness Atheist Ruling Misanthrope

Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

“Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.”

“Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.”

People Doe Company Principles Treats Aggressive Canon

Author:Fujio Mitarai

“I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.”

Giving Doe Made Interest Common Principles Advice Made It Common Interests Personal Interest

Author:George Soros

“I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.”

Kind Doe Has Beens Country States Government United Principles United States Commitment Terrorism Resistance Liberation Cuba State Government Steadfast United States Government Principled

Author:Assata Shakur

“Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!”

Ifs Way Want Needs Trying Doe Matter Might Able Science Turns Water Simple Principles Heavy Experiments Bars Glances Compass Floats Absolutely Nothing Sinking Buckets Magnet Hardy Mariners Cork

Author:Dave Barry

“The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force. In other words, you are permitted to use force only in response to some else's use of force. If they do not use force you may not use force yourself. There is a symmetry here: force for force, but no force if no force was used.”

Ifs May Doe Use Used Force Principles Approach Response Libertarian Aggression Symmetry Initiation Use Of Force Symmetrical

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion.”

Wells Kind Mean Doe Christianity Principles Magic Buddhism Worship Weak Universal Islam Awe Mysticism Magician Weak Points

Author:Franz Bardon

“What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.”

May Mean Doe America Opportunity Answers Responsibility Principles Rights Equal Agree Equal Opportunity Basic Principles America Freedom

Author:Ben Nelson

“Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.”

Way Mind Doe Ability Principles Perfection Essence Open Mind Basic Principles

Author:Ed Parker

“In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is its Author it can be sustained just as much as any other truth in natural philosophy; if false it should be opposed and exposed just as much as any other error.”

Ifs Should Firsts Doe Philosophy Truth Natural Principles Errors Exposed Inquiry Emanate Natural Philosophy

Author:John Taylor

“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.”

“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.”

Heart Doe Light Understanding Principles Produce Habit Exercise Holy Fruit Affection Evident True Religion

Book:A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission

Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission

“The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.”

Source: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.”

Needs Mean Doe Class Principles Struggle Development Abolition Class Struggle

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.”

World Doe Matter Reason Fighting Nations Principles Defense No Reason Cowardly

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.”

People Doe Principles Meaningful Attempting Find Me Free Society

Book:Meaning

Source: Meaning

“Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.”

Thinking Way Feels Heart Doe Feelings Action Values Understanding Love Is Results Principles Five Four Violence Produce Flow Angry Currents Our Thoughts Non Violence Right Action

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.”

Ifs Doe Principles Theory Experiments Observation Realms Tested Hypothesis

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”

Doe Spiritual Order Father Jesus Social Christ Church Principles Son Jesus Christ Drawing Superficial Fellowship Evangelism Camaraderie Cohesion

Book:TNTC Letters of John

Source: TNTC Letters of John

“In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?”

“When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.”

Mind Heart Doe Whole Spirit Lying Desire Principles Creation Holy Believer Whole Life Holy Spirit Holiness Gracious Sanctify Desire To Live

Author:John Owen

“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action”

Mean Doe Action Evil Principles Struggle Creative Violence Building Demand Hatred Method Active Oppression Compromise Courageous Passive Using Me Acquiescence Disunity

Author:Pope John Paul II

“If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.”

Source: Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable

“There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.”

Mind Doe Facts Shows Opportunity Principles Special Subjects Ready Training Drawing Conclusion Incapable Inference

Book:JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

Source: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

“Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Kind May Doe Has Beens Seems Effort Principles Ought Creatures Argument Weak Sticks Sake Discovering Knowing God Improbable Propriety Supposing

Author:John Gresham Machen

“Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?”

Doe Class Principles Economic Trump Democrat Warfare Class Warfare

Author:Cal Thomas

“My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.”

Want Doe Use Principles Violence Higher Authority Speculation

Author:Noam Chomsky