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If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.
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Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
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The world rests on principles.
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Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
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Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
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In life, the greater the principle, the less people there are who will follow it. The higher the calling, the fewer the followers.
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It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.
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Only the 'Right belief' gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as 'Principle'.
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
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Let principles make decisions.
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The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
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[Adam Ferguson], 'Of the Principle of
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Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.
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Place principle above all else.
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.
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The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
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There are three principles in a man's being and life:
The principle of thought, the principle of speech,
and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict
between me and my fellow-men is that I do not
say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
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Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.
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For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
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Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
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The principle of God is love and honor
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There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.
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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
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Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained.
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Principles have a way of yielding to power.
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The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.
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First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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One's principles is a prayer. It
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Most principles are limp until they are tested.
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Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.
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The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us
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When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
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between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.
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The principles always work if you work the principles.
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No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle
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Protection is not a principle but an expedient
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When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious.
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If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
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Principles don't change, people do.
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There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
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Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,
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Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
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Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.
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Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
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Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
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Since when did you take to abstract philosophy? You're only a businessman, you're not qualified to deal with questions of principle, you ought to leave it to the experts
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Important principles may and must be inflexible.
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Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal.
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The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
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Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them.
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There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.
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There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.
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The principles you know determines what you get
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It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
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In politics there are no principles, just opportunities
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In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.
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And that principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become words!
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.
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My principles are about love and doing it because there's meaning and commitment.
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To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
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Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.
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sake of exactness
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Eventually, there is one principle, and one principle alone on which the world is hinged: things will work out the way they should, provided we do what we should.
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So they're the a priori principles of possible experience
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That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.
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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
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I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
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Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!
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Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Principles are like rocks, and methods are like rivers; together they get the job done.
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There are two principles here: one is the actual needs of the masses rather than what we fancy they need, and the other is the wishes of the masses, who must make up their own minds instead of our making up their minds for them.
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There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.
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There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice