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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Joseph Butler
Happiness
Good
Rest
Seeks
Only
Never
Particular
Call
Principle
Self-Love
Sake
Affections
Anything
Themselves
Means
Thing
Things
External
External Things
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler
Nature
Man
Way
Strongest
Proper
Principle
Real
His
According
May
Happens
Which
Act
Inclination
Disproportionate
Present
Violate
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster
Speak
Difficult
Topics
Write
Propriety
Biased
Principle
Becoming
Moderation
Which
Interest
Prejudice
Even
Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
Joseph Stiglitz
Economics
Principle
Letting
Basic
My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.
Josh Tillman
Me
People
Song
Writing
Worth
Hurts
Not Worth It
Other
Unless
Guiding
Worth It
Someone
Give
Principle
Them
America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.
Julia Gillard
Benefit
Everyone
Economy
Principle
Always
Understood
America
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.
Julie Burchill
Day
Woman
Men
Three
Duty
Every
Once
Worthy
Troublemaker
Wrote
Principle
Least
Times
Upset
Militant
Description
I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.
Junot Diaz
Life
Me
My Life
Difficult
Think
Enough
About
Tackled
Could
Takes
Term
Come
Until
Period
Principle
Years
Get
Any
Grasp
Twenty
Now
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
Justin Sane
Never
Principle
Am
Committed
Grievance
Justified
Means
Violence
And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
Karen Hughes
Work
You
Conservative
Better
Try
Party
Other
Members
Out
Could
Better Place
He
Know
Reached
Also
Make
Him
Principle
Principles
His
Texas
Forge
Stood
Where
Place
Them
Agreement
Keeping
Watched
There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.
Kate Pierson
Attitude
Try
Nurture
Collective
Band
Collaborative
Principle
Female
Very
Aspect
We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.
Keir Starmer
Government
Failure
Democracy
Out
Licence
Must
Parliamentary
Allow
Principle
Without
Up
Crash
Process
Stand
Stand Up
Brexit
Agreement
In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.
Kellyanne Conway
Valuable
Consistency
Seen
Incredibly
Case
Voters
Principle
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Kenneth L. Pike
Truth
God
Nature
Abstract
Principle
Conform
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly
Future
Science
Learning
Important
Society
Evolution
Systems
About
Scenario
Like
Principle
Because
Anticipating
Very
Get
Human
Just
Just Because
Mean
Large
Human Society
Plausible
Actually
Here
If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.
Kevin Macdonald
Worth
Way
Principle
Sticking
Go
Up
Really
Whole
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.
Kevin Rudd
Home
Financial
Seen
Past
Markets
Financial Markets
Longer
Come
Principle
Alternative
Been
Option
May
Just
Interdependence
Central
Century
Us
Should
Many
Among
Bring
I want you to know that California is your sanctuary. We will always be a place where you can be whoever you are and become whoever you dream of being. California will always stand up for you. That's a principle that's bigger than partisanship, more powerful than any president.
Kevin de Leon
You
Will
Become
President
Dream
More
Powerful
Know
California
Partisanship
Principle
Always
Up
Than
Any
Being
Where
Want
Bigger
Place
Sanctuary
Stand
Your
Stand Up
Whoever
A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.
Kim Jong-un
Progress
Research
Ensuring
System
Administration
Rational
Students
Principle
Scientific
Smooth
Scientific Research
Educational
Established
Order
Should
Teachers
Teaching
Researchers
Attrition through enforcement is simply the self-evident principle that if you ratchet up the level of enforcement and make it more difficult to break the law, fewer people will continue to break the law.
Kris Kobach
You
People
Law
Will
Difficult
More
Through
Simply
Make
Self-Evident
Principle
Attrition
Continue
Up
Fewer
Break
Enforcement
Level
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
LaDainian Tomlinson
Faith
Bible
Principle
Biggest
Us
Teaches
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth
Evil
Spirit
Russian
Absolutism
Principle
Europe
A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.
Leon Jouhaux
Simple
Thanks
Drawn
Recognized
Members
Propaganda
Supervision
Principle
Opposed
Up
June
Labour
Efforts
Convention
Which
Whom
Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.
Lewis B. Smedes
Justice
Pain
Christian
Every
Society
Arise
Almost
Principle
Dealt
Causing
Did
Any
Them
We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.
Li Shufu
Government
Will
Important
Whatever
Nothing
Market
Market Economy
Critically
Tells
About
More
Economy
Principle
Discussion
Which
Chinese
Us
It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.
Louis van Gaal
You
Respect
Human Being
Philosophy
Individual
Individual Human
Principle
Human
Being
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