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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,… — Thomas Jefferson
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict.… — John Hume
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized… — Marilyn Ferguson
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior… — Herbert Spencer
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. — Mark Twain
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense… — Noam Chomsky
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything… — Thomas Paine
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been… — Mark Twain
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was… — Thomas Paine
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are… — Frank Lloyd Wright
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse… — Michael Chekhov
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred. — Stephen Covey
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. — Steve Young
The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who… — John F. Kennedy
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring… — Annie Besant
The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright… — Origen
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted… — Patrick Henry

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