Principles Quotes

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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally… — Elwyn Brooks White
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate. — David C. Hardesty, Jr.
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in… — Scott Lively
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Gautama Buddha
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between… — Peter Singer
We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them… — Thoraya Obaid
The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with… — Thoraya Obaid
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly
Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who… — Gautama Buddha
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding… — Hazel Henderson
...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in… — Larry P. Arnn
[P]art of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we… — Barack Obama
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire… — Plato
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as… — Francis Grund
The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many… — Joel Garreau
Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter… — Mike Hebert

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