#principles

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

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So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. ↗

— Karen Hughes

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If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

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I don't compromise my principles for politics. ↗

— Chris Christie

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My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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