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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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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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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.

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We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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

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

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I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

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