"The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated."
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"I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive."
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"Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon."
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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
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"The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause."
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"Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way."
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"But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose."
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"We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle."
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"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope."
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"...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World."
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"This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book."
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"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
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"There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle."
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"Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers."
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"Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle."
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"Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction."
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"There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind"
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"The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors."
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"The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to."
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"The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan."
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