Principles Quotes - Page 36

• The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Perfect, Balance, Finals

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• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

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• When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two 'identical' stones. This is, of course, the question whether the principle of identity of indiscernibles is true and, as I formulated it then, I was bound to fall into confusion about it.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Fall, Years, Two

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• At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Father, Philosophy, Book

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• The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Identity, Attention, Problem

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• The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Thinking, Majority, Doe

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• For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Identity, Bundles, Instance

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• By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Identity, Doe, Way

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• I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

  Richard Marshall

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

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• From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.

  Alison Assiter

  League, Perspective, Political

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• Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.

  Alison Assiter

  Mean, Responsibility, Exercise

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• The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Religious, Stories

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• I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Struggle, Thinking

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• To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Self, Issues

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• What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Focus, Trying, Intention

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

  Sakyong Mipham

  People, Trying, Certain

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.

  Sakyong Mipham

  People, Needs, Levels

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Courageous, Individual, Certain

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not ready for it." That goes against the fundamental principle.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhism, Fundamentals, Benefits

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhism, World, Helping

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhism, Good Things, Commonplace

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.

  Kevin Allen

  Hero, Journey, People

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• There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drama, Believe, Order

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• We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

  Marianne Williamson

  Needs, Earth, Need Love

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• I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Writing, Students

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