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• However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

  William Shenstone

  Beautiful, Distance, Eye

  William Shenstone (1775). “The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition”, p.121

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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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• The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Sex, Practice

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• And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.

  William Blackstone

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Sir William BLACKSTONE, Samuel Warren (1856). “Blackstone's Commentaries systematically abridged and adapted to the existing state of the law and constitution, with great additions. By Samuel Warren”, p.101

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• The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

  Charles Fillmore

  Art, Character, Imagination

  Charles Fillmore (2017). “The complete works Charles Fillmore”, p.1391, Youcanprint

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• Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

  Anthony Collins

  Mistake, Believe, Good Friend

  Charles Bradlaugh, John Watts, Anthony Collins (2012). “Half-Hours with the Freethinkers”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.

  Alexander Stille

  Thinking, People, Balance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own financial interests before the financial interests of the principals, princi-pals whose interests they are really bound to observe first.

  John C. Bogle

  Pals, Elements, Firsts

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• I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.

  Misty Copeland

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  "Misty Copeland On Broadening 'Beauty' And Being Black In Ballet". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 9, 2014.

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Acceptance, People

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• Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Two, Doubt

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• The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

  Neal Boortz

  Doctors, Government, Cost

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• One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Suits, Degrees

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• If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blood, Dueling, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.44

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• Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

  Thomas Paine

  Fear, Mutual Love, Links

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.17

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• Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Fine

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.82, John Ruskin

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• Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Selfishness, Want, Next

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.105, Hackett Publishing

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• Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

  Susan Sontag

  Government, Borders, World

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

  Mary Renault

  Grief, Fate, Play

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

  John Evelyn

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, Inability, Nuisance

  Source: www.slate.com

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• To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.

  Haile Gerima

  Drama, Character, White

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.

  David Lynch

  Teacher, School, Giving

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Time, Would Be, Half

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.137

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