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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

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The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

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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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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

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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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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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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 creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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