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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and… — Pope John Paul II
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in… — Erma Bombeck
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among… — Nathanael Emmons
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,… — Ambrose Bierce
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families… — Benjamin Franklin
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think… — Dalai Lama
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my… — Loni Anderson
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our… — Earl Warren
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his… — Pope Benedict XVI
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us in contradiction at… — George H. W. Bush
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that… — Theodor Schwann
The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. — Marvin Minsky
The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a… — Unknown Author
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in… — Joseph Addison
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world. — Robert C. Solomon
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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