#precept

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. ↗

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

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I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. ↗

— Quintilian

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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A good example is far better than a good precept. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. ↗