Principal Quotes - Page 9

• Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

  Francis Bacon

  Mean, Men, Endeavor

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.91, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

  Julien Green

  Book, Character, Writing

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

  William Joyce

  Winning, Careers, Office

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• The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

  Adam Smith

  Gold, Benefits, Silver

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.400, Harriman House Limited

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• The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.

  Shakira

  Children, School, Play

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• I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

  William Joyce

  Book, Office, Littles

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• It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Mean, Ezekiel

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• One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.

  Leon Panetta

  Honesty, President, Quality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

  Samuel Butler

  Animal, Men, Humanity

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 19

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• I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the sisters wanted me to repeat the whole term; so I went to the principal and pleaded with her to allow me to graduate with my class. She finally agreed on the condition that I write the graduation play. It was called How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?Catchy title, huh?

  George Carlin

  School, Kids, Writing

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... 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.

  Tom Arnold

  Stars, Children, Science

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• Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

  John Towner Williams

  Teacher, Athlete, School

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• I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

  John Adams

  Family, Children, May

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• The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

  Adam Smith

  Vanity, Progressive Taxation, Luxury

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• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

  Hugh Laurie

  Jobs, Children, Goal

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• I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to work with crowds. I like to get the principals in a crowd. When they do, something else comes off, something special.

  Frank Capra

  Special, Actors, Crowds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but also the team principals should be more prominent.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Jobs, Team, Race

  "In conversation - Bernie Ecclestone and Nico Rosberg". Interview With Nico Rosberg, www.formula1.com. May 24, 2015.

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• With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Russia

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Liberty, Defiance

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When Marvel put together Ultimate Spider-Man and someone came up with the idea of having Principal Coulson, they said, "Do you want to do the voice?" I thought, "I have to do the voice!" Because I have a daughter and we watch some cartoons, I couldn't bear the idea of tuning in and hearing somebody else's voice.

  Clark Gregg

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but it's possible that there could be a real revival of the labor movement.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

  Franz Liszt

  Tasks, Pilots, Disappear

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• It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Tasks, Critical

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• I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

  Kevin James

  Teacher, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

  1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

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