Principles Quotes - Page 18

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Hurt, War, Fellows

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It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

Miyamoto Musashi

Art, War, Mind

Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.

Omar Suleiman

Dark, Opposites, People

FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Sep 10, 2015

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... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Ignatius of Loyola

Believe, White, Black

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Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

J. C. Watts

Opportunity, Vote, Republican

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Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Giving Up, Needs, Ifs

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Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

Michael R. Burch

Taken, Depth, Height

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The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

Henry David Thoreau

Brother, Men, Iron

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I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Lydia Davis

Hurt, People, Feelings

"Long Story Short" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2014.

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To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

Michael Shermer

Agents, Moral, Accepting

Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.16, Macmillan

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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

Barbara Johnson

Hate, Tickets, Chaos

Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.82, Zondervan

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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Self, Risk

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.

Thomas Tredgold

Art, Philosophy, Mean

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