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• the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

  Georgia Harkness

  Lying, Use, May

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• Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.

  William Benton Clulow

  Powerful, Ambition, Reality

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253

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• All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.

  Donald Tsang

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

  "New Team Takes Charge of HK Affairs". www.chinadaily.com.cn. June 25, 2007.

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• There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

  Aristotle

  Names, Two, Generic Name

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Retirement, Prayer, Mean

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The True Spouse of Jesus Christ”, p.24, Aeterna Press

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• If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• ... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, School, College

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• The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.

  Sarah Fielding

  Thinking, Mind, Inward

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• It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

  Christina Stead

  Shopping, Upset, Towns

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.532, The Miegunyah Press

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• One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

  Artemas Ward

  Entertainment, Enjoyment, Features

  "Artemus Ward's Lecture on the Mormons". Book edited by Edward P. Hingston, 1882.

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.

  John Coplans

  Art, Thinking, Views

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• The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

  Saul Griffith

  Years, People, Design

  "Built to Last Share". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.

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• The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Hard Times, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1797, e-artnow

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• In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

  Walter Cunningham

  Acceptance, Rejection, Groups

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• The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

  Majid Khadduri

  Islamic, Law, Practice

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• All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.

  Jacques Derrida

  Science, Missing, Ontology

  Jacques Derrida (2010). “Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography”, p.1977, Stanford University Press

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Finals, Credit, Redemption

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1865). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.151

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• During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Pain, War

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• I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Winning, People

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

  Frank Rich

  House, Three, Defense

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• I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, School, College

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• ...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

  Al Gore

  Agents, Evolution, Bursting

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• It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

  John Ruskin

  School, Mind, Architecture

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