"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
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"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."
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"The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
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"Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from."
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"The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle."
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"Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things."
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"Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing."
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"We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man."
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"Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future."
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"Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students."
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"We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation."
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"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare."
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"I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest."
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"The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society."
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"If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher."
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"Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them."
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
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"Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols."
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"The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love."
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"Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient."
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