#principles

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations. ↗

— Charles Taylor

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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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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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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

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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

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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. ↗

— Walter Pater

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