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Letter "P" » Principles
«The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.»
«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| About:
Belief,
Life,
Loneliness,
Principles
| Keywords:
conviction, curious, human existence, inevitable, peculiar, phenomenon, rests, solitary, The central
«The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Principles
| Keywords:
advanced, fancied, First to, Pythagoreans, saturate, saturated, so-called, take up, The So
«The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Principles,
Protestantism,
Religion
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, dissent, dissidence, Northern, prevalent, Protestant, Protestantism, Protestants, refinement, refinements, the colonies
«The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination by all students that have health and leisure»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
Critical thinking, disregarded, examination, modes
«The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Order,
Principles
| Keywords:
expressions, manifestations, underlie, underlying
«The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Consequences,
Diplomacy,
Principles
| Keywords:
diplomacy, give and take, principle, take ten
«The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
founded, Indians, injuries
«The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Equality,
Principles
| Keywords:
citizens, equality, republic
«The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Principles,
War
| Keywords:
effected, stratagem, stratagems
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