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«Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Principles
| Keywords:
cats, go on, harm, principle
«I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Managers,
Motivation,
Principles
| Keywords:
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«But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Creativity,
Mathematics,
Principles
| Keywords:
ancients, dreamed, grasp, principle, pure mathematics, reside, resided, resides, residing
«If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that does»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| Keywords:
eighths, eliminate, eliminates, Eliminating, For every, iceberg, icebergs, principle, seven, sevens, shows, strengthens, write on
«At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
center, non, principle, The Center
«He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
football, football game, Football games, game, hard line, hit, line, principle, the Football, The Game of Life
«If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Conquest,
Principles
| Keywords:
American, conquest, conquests, deeply, in the mind, principle, rooted
«All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
all too, bear in mind, cases, Equal rights, majority, minority, prevail, principle, protect, reasonable, rightful, sacred
«Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
admiration, enthusiastic, first principle, principle
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