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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

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

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The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

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God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

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Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

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Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

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The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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