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"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*." »Theodore Hesburgh
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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 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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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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"basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." »Wernher von Braun
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"...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"I speak basic to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself." »Anonymous
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"The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." »Chuq Von Rospach
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"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge
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"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military." »Harry S. Truman
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"Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust." »Zig Ziglar
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"basic - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous
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"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett
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"No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some." »Ken Keyes
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"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson
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"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." »Hazel Henderson
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"Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal." »John F. Kennedy
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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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"Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large." »Eloise Salholz
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra
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