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#principle

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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.


Ali A. Saleh


#democracy #democratic #develop #every #homeland

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.


Kong Fu Zi


#principle #right #see #want

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.


Scott Adams


#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.


Aesop


#end #gives #having #his #others

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.


Henry F. Ashurst


#great #great principle #his #life #man

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.


Ronald Fisher


#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.


Felix Frankfurter


#controversy #decide #only #principle #question

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.


Sigmund Freud


#becoming #cannot #come #efforts #give

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.


Jim Gerlach


#brave #break #british #chains #could

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.


Bede Griffiths


#freedom #makes #men #most #obedience






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