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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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

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

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

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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

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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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I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

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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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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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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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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

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