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• This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Issues

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• This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Father, President

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• We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

  James E. Faust

  Trying, Testimony, Acquire

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• People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

  Michael Haneke

  People, Relax, Three

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• Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Ideas, Nonsense

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• Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something. You have poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think, "Now it has to work. If I put in just a little more, then it will work."

  Charlie Munger

  Commitment, Thinking, People

  "Business: What Lawyers Should Know". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the Stanford Law School in Stanford, California, March 13, 1998.

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• All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Party, Patriotic, Political

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.

  John Dewey

  Special, Acting, Tools

  John Dewey (2015). “Ethics: Top American Authors”, p.237, 谷月社

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• Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Thinking, Rights

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Marshall Shatz (1990). “Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Leader, Unity, Should

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• The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Thinking, Russia

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• The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

  Theresa May

  Simple, Two, Migrants

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

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• The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Men, Mystical Experiences

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• Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

  Charles Grodin

  Hurt, Doe, Toms

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• The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

  Albert Einstein

  Needs, My Time

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• Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Men, Air, Sky

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• When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Wish

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• We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Real, Fire Of Love, Political

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• As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

  Robert E. Lee

  Character, Men, Should

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• I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

  John Calvin

  Needs, Compromise, Happens

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• If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.

  A. C. Bradley

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.19, A. C. Bradley

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• Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Heart, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

  Antonin Scalia

  Yield, Government, Usual

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.233, Regnery Publishing

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• I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

  Philosophy, Silly, Math

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