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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann
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"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil
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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius
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"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell
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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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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." »Huey Long
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act." »Claude A. Helvetius
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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding
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"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething." »Mark Twain
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"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus
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"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple." »Albert Einstein
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." »George Eliot
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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer
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"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." »William James
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"There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'." »Sir William Joseph Slim
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