#principles

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Aesop

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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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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

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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 like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. ↗

— Peter MacKay

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