"In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles."
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"I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote."
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"I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest."
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"The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts."
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"Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men."
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"I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding."
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"Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through."
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"The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement."
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"I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other."
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"No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy."
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"The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted."
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"If principles can become dated, they're not principles."
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"When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing."
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"Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last."
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"The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power."
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"...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that."
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"On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true."
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"Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies."
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"Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles."
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"Rise above principle and do what is right."
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