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• I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.

  Chris Cain

  Song, Player, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

  Andy Cohen

  Principles, Term, Copies

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Becoming One, Justice, Support

  Address to the Constituent Assembly, www.pakistani.org. August 11, 1947.

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• By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Simple, Ebay, Growth

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• Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Reason, Obsolete

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.11, A&C Black

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• What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.

  Doc Childre

  Lying, Heart, Technology

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• My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.

  Jay Baruchel

  Mom, Jobs, Hate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

  John Wesley

  Mom, Mother, Source

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• Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Thinking, Self, People

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• As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Long, Promise, Way

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• I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

  Alan Lightman

  Focus, Important, Different

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

  Moby

  Stupid, Fall, Use

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

  Eyvind Kang

  Principles, Collaboration, Should

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

  Norman Borlaug

  Gmos, Justice, Desire

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

  Michael Pare

  Political, Ruling, Changed

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• We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Humility, Focus

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• Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.

  Paul Davies

  Powerful, Science, Discovery

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• What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the least contest this, but he only said, 'Oh, how ugly.' As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, he really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle in the search for important results in theoretical physics.

  Hermann Bondi

  Science, Theoretical Physics, Important

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• As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, People, Poetry

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• The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Men, Evolution, Injury

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• the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Selfish, Reflection

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Ideas, Political

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  Walter Gropius

  Design, Intellectual, Stuff

  "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

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• My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

  Julia Gillard

  Zero, Games, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

  George R. R. Martin

  Taken, Writing, Heart

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