Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival… — Francis Maitland Balfour Copy Share Image
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to… — Erich Raeder Copy Share Image
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have… — Lillian Wald Copy Share Image
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial… — Louis Daguerre Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known… — James Otis Copy Share Image
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
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