Principles Quotes - Page 16

• This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

  Kevin Kelly

  Mean, Important, Evolution

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• I get angry at a principle, not a person.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Persons, Angry

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• But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Light

  Jonathan Edwards (1845). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission”, p.18

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• Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

  Kenneth Clark

  Delight, Greedy, Ruthless

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• Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

  William Petty

  Numbers, People, Bills

  Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

  David Bohm

  Science, Doe, Finals

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.47, Routledge

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• Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

  John Locke

  Children, Water, Parent

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Law, Giving

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.150, Beard Books

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• Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

  Robert Anthony

  Games, Play, Joy

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.1, Morgan James Publishing

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• The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

  Adam Smith

  Desire, Graves, Womb

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things pertaining to this matter, and they would like us to tone that principle down and change it and make it applicable to the views of the day. This we cannot do; nor can we interfere with any of the commands of God to meet the persuasions or behests of men. I cannot do it, and will not do it.

  John Taylor

  Men, Views, Down And

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• THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

  Candice Bergen

  Women, Two, Religion

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• Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.

  Pat Williams

  Children, Teaching, Athlete

  Source: nerdreactor.com

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• I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Consistent, Courses, Has Beens

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Fundamentals, Willing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

  Harvey Mackay

  Cutting, Technology, Needs

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : THE MACKAY MBA OF SELLING IN THE REAL WORLD". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.

  Karen Armstrong

  Athlete, Heart, Compassion

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, People, Stupidity

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• The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness.

  John Bosco

  People, Devil, Traps

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• ... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

  Brian Kernighan

  Fundamentals, Answers, Tests

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• ... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Strong, Struggle, Inheritance

  Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett (1987). “The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959”

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• The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Struggle, Mean, Class

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