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" Quotes and Sayings About principle

Be worried when everyone likes you. If everyone likes you, it means you have no morals and principles. The minute you stand for something, it is automatic that some people will dislike you

Likes Morals Minute Automatic
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The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

Principle Kept Mind Know
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Obey Being Bound Them
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man Good Enough Sheet
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We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

Live Injury Best Matter
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change Keep Intact Root
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Africa Best Ever Principles
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Appreciated Craving Deepest Human
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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Let your lifestyle be consistent with your principles for that is the only way to prove that your principles are practicable. Principles that are not practicable are not achievable.

Lifestyle Consistent Prove Achievable
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Man Learned Secret Drudgery
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Age Analysis Consider Cultural
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
Moral Principles Depend Majority
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There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

Subject Confused Average Mind
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Building Day Domain Every
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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Back First Getting Master
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Agree Carrying Intention Mean
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Doubted Guiding Guilt Never
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Necessarily Are Not Principles
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
First Harm Hospital May
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Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Business Death Embraces Going
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Like Others Principles Them
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox

Any Denying Maintain May
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

Base Cannot Democracy Does
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

Democratic History Looked Many
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

American Cannot Country Discarded
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Current Like Matters Principle
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Despotism Force Immediate Parent
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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Anvil Everyday Family Hammered
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I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Distinguishing Fashionable Glory God
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Argue Compromise Compromised Greater
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Always Moderation Principle Temper
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Basis Cannot Discover Every
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Army Cannot Penetrate Principles
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Course Effected Enemy Harm
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Calendar Change Equity Ethics
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

American Ample Constitution Enduring
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Attainable Becoming Cannot Come
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Change Choice Life Principles
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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Communication Effective Essential Foundational
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