"The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle."
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"The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold."
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"I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures."
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"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
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"Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace."
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"No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles."
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"Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle."
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"As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles."
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"Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust."
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"I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself."
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"Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts."
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"For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom."
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"Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938"
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"The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason itself is an illusion. As Ethan Allen said Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are labouring to dethrone. If they argue without reason, which they must do, in order to be consistent with themselves, they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument."
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"One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering."
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"It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person."
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"In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse."
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"In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them."
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"The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God."
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"While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue."
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