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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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He has lived for peace, but he died for his principles.
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
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I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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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.
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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.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995) -
It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
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It is personalities, not principles, that move the age
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) H. 3 -
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
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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.
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