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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. – Henry Fielding	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. – Immanuel Kant	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. – Joseph Wood Krutch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. – Jean Piaget	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'. – Sir William Joseph Slim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind. – Alexander Hamilton Stephens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin – Bill Watterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht. – Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party. – Mao Zedong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle. – Hugh Blair	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. – George Carlin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of creation, and the perpetual cause of life. – Albert Pike	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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