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Tag Name "Principles" (2926)

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Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.
Walter Bagehot
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
Walter Benjamin
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I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.
Kevin Pietersen
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Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
Walter Lippmann
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I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
Walter Lippmann
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater
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The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.
Walter Russell
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
Walter Ulbricht
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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
Walter Wriston
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
Wang Jianlin
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I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
Vincent Piazza
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Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.
Warder Clyde Allee
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It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully. That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.
Brian McGinn
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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.
Warren Buffett
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The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.
George H. W. Bush
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The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.
Lysander Spooner
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One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
Napoleon Hill
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I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
Ban Ki-moon
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Polls are biased left GOP wins on the issues.
Newt Gingrich
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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
John C. Maxwell
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