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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. Schumacher
principlesattitudelife

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Earl Warren
yieldprincipleslaw

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

E. O. Wilson
variationlevelsprinciples

Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.

E. O. Wilson
pairsmalesprinciples

If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

Earl Nightingale
common-senseget-betterprinciples

I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

Ed Parker
principleshonorhands
Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion. by Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Ed Parker
sequenceprecedenceprinciples

Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
principlestryingwar

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Edmund Pendleton
avarice-greedbattleprinciples
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from... by Edmund Burke

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke
tyrantsprincipleskings
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. by Edmund Burke

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Edmund Burke
gamblinghuman-natureprinciples
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the... by Edward Bellamy

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Edward Bellamy
dignitydemocracyprinciples

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
relentlessmusicprinciples

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Edmund Burke
resistanceprinciplesreligion

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Edmund Burke
principlesperfectprofound
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of t... by Edmund Burke

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Edmund Burke
governmentmomentsprinciples

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Edmund Burke
principlespeopleideas

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

Edward Jenks
doomunjustprinciples

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
principleslawdoe
But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential princ... by Edward Gibbon

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

Edward Gibbon
democracyprinciplesjustice
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