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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…
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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…
— Teresa of Avila
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The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
— Robert Collier
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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
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The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its…
— Gustave Eiffel
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
— Rumi
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always…
— Stephen Covey
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
— Marie Curie
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,…
— Tom DeLay
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