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We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity… — Allen Johnson
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of… — John Stuart Mill
The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just… — Mary Blakely
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or… — Unknown Author
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not… — Isabella Beeton
Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival. — Robert Ardrey
Forgiveness is a stunning principal, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But… — Barbara Johnson
Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are… — Bernard Arnault
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. — Jean Racine
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. — Rene Descartes
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. — Ken Follett
The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism. — Robert Spencer
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. — Ignatius Loyola
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at… — Fredrik Bajer
Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place.… — Paulo Coelho
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my… — Dan Simmons
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the… — Thomas Young
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general. — M.C. Escher
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained… — Pope Leo XIII
The principal cause of war is war itself. — C. Wright Mills
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,… — Benjamin Franklin
Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool… — P.J. O'Rourke

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