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• The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Foundation

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• All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Justice, Social, Existence

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

  Matt Nix

  Web Content, Support, Stories

  Source: deadline.com

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• I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.

  Robert L. Millet

  Spiritual, Jesus, Believe

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• The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

  Thomas Piketty

  Levels, Wells, Diffusion

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Artist, Symphony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Validation, Needs

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Running, Real

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, People, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.70, Stanford University Press

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• Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Office, Presidential, Lasts

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Equal Pay, Should Have

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• American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Team, Men, Class

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• Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Duty, Objects, Discharge

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• My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

  Tony Parsons

  Morning, Motivation, People

  "Punk turns new romantic". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 1999.

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• So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Soul, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.102, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned, and for the greater a sum. Since people regularly dispose of their intelligence in their rush to be swindled, and then turn right around and do it again, humans must want to be duped. Institutionalized wishful thinking - the stock market, religion, advertising - is after all a cornerstone of our system.

  Luc Sante

  Thinking, People, Greed

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Government, Bully

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

  John Berger

  Men, Average, Oil

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• We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.

  Marcel Proust

  Ideas, Mind, Packs

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

  Will Rogers

  People, Return, Should

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• What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

  Dan Jones

  Eye, Firsts, Duty

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• Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Events, Causes, Prophecy

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.580

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• The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Tasks, Illusion

  Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

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• We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nature, Science, Curiosity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1847). “A history of the earth and animated nature, with an intr. view of the animal kingdom tr. from the Fr. of baron Cuvier, notes [and] a life of the author by W. Irving”, p.73

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• Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Patriotism, Virtue

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