Principles Quotes - Page 26

• Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Customs, Magistrates

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• Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Done, May

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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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• Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all -- aren't we 'followers of Christ'? Then by all means, let's actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him.

  John Eldredge

  Mean, Ideas, Followers

  John Eldredge (2009). “Knowing the Heart of God: A Year of Devotional Readings to Help You Abide in Him”, p.249, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Mysteries". Book by Colin Wilson, 1978.

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• Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Real, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

  David Bohm

  Real, Long, Reason Why

  "A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of 'Hidden' Variables. II". Physical Review, Volume 35, No. 2 (p. 188), January 15, 1952.

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• Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

  Sam Harris

  People, Dangerous, Property

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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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• Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

  John Taylor

  Men, People, Kind

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• Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

  Francis George

  Law, Justice, People

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

  Francis George

  Criteria, Process, Handle

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

  Erica Brown

  Teacher, Class, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Reality, Men, Political

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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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• I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

  Alan Lightman

  Guiding Principles, Focus, Important

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• 3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

  Lester Beall

  Communication, Heart, Knowledge

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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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• I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

  Rene Descartes

  Physics, Accepted, Mathematics

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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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• That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Purpose, Knocked Down

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.80, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

  J. William Fulbright

  Ideas, People, Needs

  "Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2010.

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• I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

  Edmund Burke

  Profound, Perfect, Inheritance

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.269

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