The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done. — Kevin Pietersen Copy Share Image
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do. — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. — David Korten Copy Share Image
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their… — Bill Moggridge Copy Share Image
Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
On Russia, I can only repeat what the president [Barack Obama] said. This is all about respecting certain principles, and I'm saying… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my days, it comes right back down to my parents. Raising all the kids. They really taught me… — Charlie Brenneman Copy Share Image
I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All… — David Swing Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate. — David C. Hardesty Jr Copy Share Image
Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my… — George Mason Copy Share Image
A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor… — Eleftherios Venizelos Copy Share Image
Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
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![“On Russia, I can only repeat what the president [Barack Obama] said. This is all about respecting certain principles, and I'm saying this from a European vantage point, from a European, from a German vantage point, sorry, the fact that for over 70 years we have been able to enjoy peace.” quote by Angela Merkel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d34/angela-merkel-2231_able_on-russia-i-can-only-repeat-what-the-pre_2650885.jpg)
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