Principles Quotes - Page 29

• Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.

  Jeff Bryant

  Children, Integrity, People

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• The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Ideas, United States

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• No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Player, Years, Eight

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• It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Profound, Chess

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• For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

  Marissa Mayer

  Choices, Privacy, Online

  "Marissa Mayer Lays Out Her Vision" by Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2013.

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• One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

  Plotinus

  Creatures, Complexes, Universe

  Plotinus (1966). “Plotinus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

  Victor Hugo

  Father, Circles, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Practice, Editors, Should

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• If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

  John Ruskin

  Angel, Thinking, Space

  John Ruskin “Works: Modern painters”

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• The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Democracy

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• The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Leader, Should, Relate

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• We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

  J. William Fulbright

  Party, Practice, Two

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• Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.

  Al Gore

  Philosophical, Practice, Special

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• All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

  Iamblichus

  Fate, Soul, World

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• Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

  David Lloyd George

  Conviction, Vulture

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• The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Nhs, Adequate, Safe

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Independent, Guiding Principles, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Political Centre (Great Britain) (1988). “CPC [publications].”

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• Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Men, Body

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.498

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mother, Mirrors, Guy

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• However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

  Robert Peel

  Regret, Party, Acting

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• A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Order, Scarcity, Royal

  "Lay Up in Store". Keith B. McMullin's priesthood session address at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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• Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

  Julien Benda

  Men, Morality, Abstract

  Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”

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• I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.

  Nick Clegg

  Hard Work, Simple, Thinking

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• One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Simple, Iraq

  "Gen. Wesley Clark: Iraq war based on 'misjudgment'". Interview with Aaron Brown, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.

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• George W. Bush, another Republican who I probably didn`t agree with on much, right after 9/11 went to a mosque and joined with some Muslim leaders and said that, look, you know, we`re not going to tolerate any backlash. These people who attacked our country are criminals and they`re terrorists, and they might try to profess a religion, but they definitely violate the principles of that religion.

  Steve King

  Country, People, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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