#principles

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. ↗

— George Stephenson

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People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#drinking #drunk #eating #ignorant #indigestion

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems. ↗

— Rick Scott

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#principles #change

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held. ↗

— Matthew Scully

#morality #principles #reform #change

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#human-nature #principles #equality

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ↗

— Confucius

#principles #life