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"Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business."
"Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice."
"Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable."
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains."
"In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle."
"The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free."
"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness."
"Circumstances should never alter principles!"
"So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind."
"Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy."
"Teach principles not formulas."
"He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture."
"It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'"
"In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle."
"Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."
"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being."
"I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law"
"Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war."
