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Letter "P" » Principles
«It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.»
«It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.»
«I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
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flexible, unbending, unbends, unbent
«It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.»
Author: Florence Nightingale
(Humanitarian, Nurse)
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Principles
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enunciate, enunciated, hospital
«It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.»
«I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck»
Author: Stanley Baldwin
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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Principles
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float, neck, opportunist, opportunists
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Principles
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contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.»
«It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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Principles
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live up to, principles
«It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Principles,
Writing
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philosophical, put into practice, volumes
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