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#principle

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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.


Thomas Paine


#approves #business #conduct #conscience #death

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.


Thomas Paine


#moderation #principle #temper #vice #virtue

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?


Blaise Pascal


#natural #nature #our #principles

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.


Rand Paul


#also #any #clay #close #cousin

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.


Jim Ramstad


#around #brought #cold #cold war #deepest

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.


John Rawls


#chosen #ignorance #justice #principles #veil

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.


Dixie Lee Ray


#biological #birth #broad #constantly #death

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.


Herbert Read


#came #derived #equity #evidence #first

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.


David Remnick


#apply #better #could #faster #good

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.


David Ricardo


#between #carefully #commodity #distinguish #estimated






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