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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.


Abraham Lincoln
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!


Henry David Thoreau
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.


Deborah Kerr
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.


Bob Barr
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I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.
Martha Beck
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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
William S. Burroughs
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We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.


Kathie Lee Gifford
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.


Jawaharlal Nehru
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If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.
Eric Maskin
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.


Rachel Roberts
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.


Rainer Maria Rilke
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.


Ernest Hemingway
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Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.
Dennis Prager
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Benjamin Tucker
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The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.
Richard Mourdock
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