Quotes with principle

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  • George Carlin As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Martin Luther King At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bill Haslam At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Murphy Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
    Arthur Murphy
    Irish writer
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  • Aleister Crowley Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Edmund Burke Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Barney Frank Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Edmund Burke Economy is based on the principle that all wealth has its limits.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ben Carson Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every principle contains in itself the germs of a prophecy.
    Biographia Literaria ch. 10
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Meg Greenfield Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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