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• The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Mind, Events

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• For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

  Ken Follett

  Destiny, Anxiety, Suspense

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• The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism.

  Robert Spencer

  Islamic, Welcome, Organs

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• The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Father, Catholic, India

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• The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.

  Errico Malatesta

  Lying, Government, Police

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• I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Essentials, Literature, Language

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• The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

  Alfred Doblin

  Home, Men, Cities

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• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

  Dan Simmons

  Average, Years, Long

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• If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.

  Thomas Young

  Fall, Eye, Science

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• Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

  M. C. Escher

  Order, Simplicity, Important

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• The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Men, Fellow Man

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• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  C. Wright Mills

  War, Causes, Causes Of War

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• My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brother, Thinking, Years

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• Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Thinking, Years

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.

  Sister Parish

  Home, Ideas, Two

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• In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he wants. Of course, in the movie, in the story, she makes a mistake by hiring him. But, if she doesn't, I have no story.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Mistake, School, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.

  Shailene Woodley

  Mom, Fun, Dad

  Source: collider.com

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• Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

  John Stuart Mill

  Doe, Social, Description

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.170

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• My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

  Eric Stoltz

  Dad, School, Kids

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

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• In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

  Richard Jeni

  New York, Leisure Activities, Bleeding

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph of his is about classical notions of beauty, of young beautiful black men, young beautiful women, and he selects subjects who are essentially interesting and good-looking and extremely physical. I can't stand them.

  John Coplans

  Beautiful, Men, Views

  John Coplans (2002). “A Body”, powerHouse Books

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• If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Woe Unto, Desire

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.203

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• If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

  Mark Shields

  Law, Broken, Endorsements

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• The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

  Neal Boortz

  Humorous, Party, Government

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• My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

  GG Allin

  Waiting, Pennies, Irritated

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