Principles Quotes - Page 33

• You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Two, Piano, Energy

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• No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

  Tryon Edwards

  Civilization, Christianity, Expected

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.213, Ravenio Books

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• The principles always work if you work the principles.

  Jack Canfield

  Ifs

  Jack Canfield, Kent Healy (2008). “The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.249, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Challenges, Age, Adjusting

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• In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

  Radhanath Swami

  Focus, Attention, Way

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• We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

  Radhanath Swami

  Soul, Progress, Path

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• There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Orbit, Goes On

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

  Jim DeMint

  Character, World, Want

  "DeMint is in demand" by Shawna Shepherd, www.cnn.com. September 4, 2011.

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• American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

  William Kristol

  Defense, Promotion, Used

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• When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

  Stephen Covey

  Values

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.46, Mango Media Inc.

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• You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

  Jeb Bush

  Appeals

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• One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

  Paul Theroux

  Buddhism, Neglect, Cardinals

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• The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Improvement, Type, Method

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• From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Men, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Practice, Sophistry, Facts

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85

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• Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

  E. O. Wilson

  Variation, Levels, Way

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• Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morality, Nations

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• Principles are what people have instead of God.

  Alexander Schmemann

  People

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• The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Way, Firsts

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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Principles are eternal.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Eternal

  Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio

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• Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

  William McGregor Paxton

  Victory, Chariots, Horsemen

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• What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

  Barack Obama

  War, Passion, Support

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.294, Canongate Books

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• Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to lose, that is, borrowed funds; and (3) Making hasty decisions. Each of these actions violates one or more biblical principles... Together they constitute a sin called greed.

  Larry Burkett

  Biblical, Thinking, Errors

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Mean, Order, Speak

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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