Adam Smith Quotes, Practice Quotes, Principles Quotes

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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

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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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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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Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

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

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The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

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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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I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

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The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

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Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

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