Principles Quotes - Page 35

• The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Fun, Guiding Principles

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• The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

  Aristotle

  Gymnastics, People, Minorities

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• I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result.

  Narendra Modi

  Legs, Want, Finals

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• The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Majority

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't have principles. I have nerves.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Nerves

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

  Sam Smith

  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

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• There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive.

  Sam Smith

  Men, Lasts, Should

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• [I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves . . . if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.

  Sam Smith

  Keys, Government, Vision

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• When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Regret, Believe, Order

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• No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.

  Max Kozloff

  Years, Feelings, Age

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• To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of photographic reportage. And in the thousandth of a second that follows, to take the photo of what one has seen - that is the practical side of reportage.

  Martin Munkacsi

  People, Sides, Indifferent

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• A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Character, Greatness

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• We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

  Myles Munroe

  Character, Sacrifice, Self

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