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Letter "P" » Principles
«Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.»
«A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Country,
Loyalty,
Patriotism,
Principles
| Keywords:
area, land area, loyalty, rivers, woods
«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
«'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Principles
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approves, approving, conduct, firm, pursue, shrink, shrinks, The Business, Tis
«A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
a people, loses, principles, privileges, soon, values
«By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
denying, paradox
«A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views»
«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
«All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.»
«Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Conquest,
Principles
| Keywords:
conquest, conquests, inconsistent
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