"These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules:……" — Leo Tolstoy

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• You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not… — Peter J. Daniels
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• I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is. — Joseph Brodsky
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• Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered… — Wilfrid Laurier
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• Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov

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