#principles

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good. ↗

— John Chancellor

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In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. ↗

— Henri Coanda

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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

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