Principles Quotes - Page 16

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

Confucius

Strong, Light, Opposites

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Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

Cornel West

Integrity, Media, Voice

Cornel West (2005). “Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism”, Penguin Classics

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The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier" and informs us that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Perhaps he's right. Climate change is like gravity - a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

Sarah Palin

Long, Interesting, President

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Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

Jack Benny

Ignorance, Names, Comedy

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Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.

Andre Breton

Dream, Reality, Psychics

"Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

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The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

George Santayana

Ignorance, Animal, Expression

George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

George Washington

Done, Should, Fixed

Marvin Kitman, George Washington (2001). “George Washington's Expense Account”, p.103, Grove Press

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On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.

Noam Chomsky

Views, Civilization, Ideas

Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 2, 2000.

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All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

Sharyn McCrumb

Baby, Growing Up, Differences

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A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

Richard G. Scott

Decision, Challenges, Confusing

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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Plato

Soul, Way, Youth

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The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Degrees, Cost, Fundamentals

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The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government - from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much a reproach of past Republican conduct as it is a recognition of new opportunities.

Tony Blankley

Party, Past, Opportunity

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Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

Juvenal

Mother, Children, Hands

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Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Bertrand Russell

Exercise, Modern Life, Muscles

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Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.

Sidney Greenberg

Character, Self, Discipline

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Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

P. J. O'Rourke

Inability, Attention, May

P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Milton Friedman

Independent, Short Positive, Judgment

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Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about the imperatives of this market, I view today's economy as the Value Economy. Adding value has become more than just a sound business principle; it is both the common denominator and the competitive edge.

Arthur Levitt Jr

Thinking, Views, Sound

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With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.

Karl Popper

Plato, Political, Enemy

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The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Dmitry Medvedev

Promise, Enterprise, Free Enterprise

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The National Socialist Movement, which aims at establishing the National Socialist People's State, must always bear steadfastly in mind the principle that every future institution under that State must be rooted in the movement itself.

Adolf Hitler

People, Mind, Bears

Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.558, eKitap Projesi

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Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

Joseph M. Juran

Projects

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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Albert Einstein

Raw Materials, Firsts, Recognition

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.21, Broadway Books

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There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

Protagoras

Matter, Phenomenon, Inherent

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