"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
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"Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season."
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"[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue."
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""Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life."
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"What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water."
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"We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory."
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"It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit."
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"Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures."
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"Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed."
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"History is the discovering of the principles of human nature."
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"What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations."
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"Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine."
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"Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after."
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"Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances."
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"The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied."
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"The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak."
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"Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors."
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"In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle."
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"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."
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"It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am."
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