Principles Quotes

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The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed this practice to… — Sidney W. Fox
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little. — George Arundale
We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national… — John Ashcroft
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable… — Pope Leo XIII
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:… — Albert Einstein
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man… — Neal A. Maxwell
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of… — Margaret Chase Smith
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. — Victoria Woodhull
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided… — Herbert Butterfield
God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more. — Rick Warren
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty… — Lysander Spooner
Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures. — Tony Dungy
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the… — Roy Hattersley
Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of… — Ibn Taymiyyah

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