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• The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  Giambattista Vico

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  Tags in Etymology, Principle

• God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

  Giacomo Casanova

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  Tags in Principle

• The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic… for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

  Germaine Greer

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  Tags in Man, Brotherhood, Principle

• I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

  Ted Cruz

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• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

  Florence Nightingale

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  Tags in Principle, Hospital

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

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  Tags in Principle, Different, Contribution

• Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  Felix Mendelssohn

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  Tags in Principle, Public, Myself

• Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

  Felix Frankfurter

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  Tags in Principle, Decide

• To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

  George Ripley

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Religious, Principle

• America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  Topics in America

  Tags in People, Moral, Principle

• Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

  Corazon Aquino

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  Tags in Peace, Hope, Principle

• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

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• I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

  Cole Younger

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• It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

  Christopher Van Hollen Jr.

  Topics in Failure, Management

  Tags in Security, Principle

• Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

  Christopher John Matthews

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• The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

  Christopher Dawson

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Capable, Principle

• The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

  Christian Morgenstern

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  Tags in Principle, Choose

• I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

  Rutherford B. Hayes

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• Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Edmund Burke

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