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• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  A. R. Ammons

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• It’s all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

  Eugene Ormandy

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• Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

  Albert Camus

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• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.

  Agatha Christie

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• 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.

  Scott Adams

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• The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

  Jerzy Kosinski

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• 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.

  Akhenaton

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• Managing an advertising agency isn’t all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.

  David Ogilvy

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• One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party.

  Nikita Khrushchev

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• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  Jane Austen

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• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

  Mark Twain

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

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• You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

  Meg Whitman

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• 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.

  James Madison Jr

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• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

  Jimmy Carter

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting.

  Jimmy Carter

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• We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you’re running on a ticket, you’re running with a team.

  Richard Joseph Daley

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• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

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