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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  Priorities, United States, Terrorist

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• The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

  H. L. Mencken

  Party, Office, People

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.209, Knopf

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• I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Mistake, Thinking, Giving

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• The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Spirit

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• ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

  Saul Bellow

  Confusion, Age, Eras

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Tea

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• My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Religion, Slavery

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2437, Library of Alexandria

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Drama, Character, Greatness

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• Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

  David Brin

  People, Age, Doe

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Heaven, Monsters

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.14

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• Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Men, Joy

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• The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Unity, Essentials, Republic

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• The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

  Denis Fahey

  War, Order, Democracy

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• My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Interesting, Looks

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• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  Nassau William Senior

  Political, Principles, Use

  Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.3

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• The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Taken, Europe, Achievement

  Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

  Josiah Warren

  Mistake, Firsts, Combination

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• It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to
  Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home
  with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know
  for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out
  you know, out thousands of e-mails.

  Jedediah Bila

  Lying, Mean, Home

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Jobs, Theatre, Stories

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

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• Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

  Edie McClurg

  Czech Republic, Together, Prague

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• In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.

  Mark Zandi

  Giving, Stressed, Pay

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• The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

  Tom Clancy

  Men, Justice, Goal

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.42, Penguin

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

  Joyce Cary

  Freedom, Mind, Facts

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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