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  • The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
  • The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

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  • Jacques Barzun In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • George Macdonald The principal part of faith is patience.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • William Butler Yeats A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Edmund Burke Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Horace Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Donald Rumsfeld It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Bertrand Russell Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Giles No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Thomas Arnold Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Donald Rumsfeld Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Shashi Tharoor Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Ashley Montagu The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Arthur Koestler The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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