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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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"If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." »Hermann Hesse
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"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers." »Joseph Chilton Pearce
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""Reality TV has in fact absolutely nothing to do with "reality."" »Kilburn Hall
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"Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes." »Henry Kissinger
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"Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.
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"We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts." »Victor Daniels
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." »Albert Einstein
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." »Albert Einstein
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." »Albert Einstein
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"The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality." »Sir Eric Ashby
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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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"If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams." »Eric Pio
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"A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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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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"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." »Huey Long
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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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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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin
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"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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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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