"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
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"When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here."
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"We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles."
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"The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases."
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"It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life."
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"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature."
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"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form."
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"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
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"A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever."
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"The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government"
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"Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes."
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"What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm."
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"The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket."
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"The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being."
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"As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world."
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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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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles."
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"For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."
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"The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact."
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