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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Democracy
Power
Few
Citizens
About
Delegation
Vast
Vast Majority
Through
Merit
Majority
Principle
Representatives
Chosen
Competence
We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
Narendra Modi
Work
Higher
Higher Level
Never
Principle
Done
Lower
Should
Level
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
Nathan Myhrvold
Law
Secular
Sperm
OK
Says
Would
Would-Be
Religious
Similar
Only
Only Difference
Adult
Combination
Genetic
Principle
Another
Material
Cloning
Replaced
Egg
Cell
Difference
Procedure
Humanist
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Omar Bongo
Justice
Responsibility
Collective
Concept
Principle
Western
Sanctions
Incompatible
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland
Success
You
Worth
Win
Others
Some
Principle
Waging
Campaigns
Regardless
Grounds
Fought
Chance
Chances
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Patrick Kavanagh
Happiness
Life
Women
Natural
Progress
Men
Men And Women
Spring
Circles
Static
Out
Rural
Rises
General
Countryside
Principle
None
Rock
Spreads
Irregular
Which
Natural Life
Communities
Naturally
Base
Compared
Lived
A bedrock principle of our justice system is ensuring a fair day in court, something that is especially important for children who cannot advocate for themselves.
Patrick Leahy
Day
Justice
Important
Our
Ensuring
System
Something
Fair
Principle
Court
Advocate
Bedrock
Children
Cannot
Themselves
Who
I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.
Paul Morrissey
Censorship
Some
Some Things
Principle
Censored
Against
Should
Things
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.
Paul Ryan
Freedom
Religion
Country
Constitutional
Freedom Of Religion
Principle
Fundamental
Founding
In some ways, I admire the principle of a manager who is determined that his team must play their own game.
Paul Scholes
Game
Own
Ways
Must
Admire
Some
Determined
Principle
His
Manager
Team
Who
Play
CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be measured by profitability and growth alone.
Pierre Nanterme
Success
Alone
Must
New
Beyond
Also
Principle
Go
Commit
Cannot
CEOs
Working
Measured
Regulatory
Growth
Profitability
Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.
Priti Patel
Change
Progress
Back
Embracing
Instead
Principle
Held
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.
Psy
Potential
Come
Like
Most
Principle
Korea
Korean
Prove
American
Artist
Want
Dynamic
Act
Showcase
International
Basic
Here
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
Rachel Cusk
Man
Bit
Vegetarian
He
Suppose
Like
Principle
Feminist
Humanitarian
Defending
As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.
Rajnath Singh
Government
Democracy
Matter
Healthy
Believe
Principle
Opposed
Norms
Stable
President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Sometimes
Oppose
Odds
Congress
United Nations
President
Everything
Members
Obama
Administration
Finds
Principle
Does
Itself
Nations
Barack
Who
United
Nearly
The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.
Richard Mourdock
You
People
Those
Compromise
Fact
Never
Principle
Principles
Left
Either
Far
Us
Should
Stand
Right
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Richard Owen
Life
Striking
Way
Total
Some
Darwin
Rather
Network
Principle
Affects
Which
Ingenious
Certain
Chain
Even
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.
Richard P. Feynman
Great
You
Few
Other
Strictly
Strictly Speaking
Once
Computer
Great Principle
Principle
Loosely
Few Things
Any
Anything
Procedures
Certain
Speaking
Sufficient
Basic
Things
Universality
Basically
Basis
Set
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
Architecture
Profit
Our
Follows
Principle
Aesthetic
Times
Form
Here is a guiding principle: If a business collects data on consumers electronically, it should provide them with a version of that data that is easy to download and export to another Web site.
Richard Thaler
Business
Guiding
Easy
Web
Web Site
Data
Consumers
Principle
Another
Provide
Version
Site
Them
Should
Export
Download
Here
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.
Rick Perlstein
Correct
Willing
Detail
Follow
Shakespeare
Poetic
Mistaken
Principle
Overlook
Historian
Historical
Inaccuracy
Storyteller
Personally
Speaking
Basically
I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.
Rick Scott
You
Competition
Will
Drive
Down
Believe
More
Prices
Principle
I'm not in a 'starry' position to be able to pick and choose, but I am interested in telling stories of substance with great directors - that's my only guiding principle.
Riz Ahmed
Great
Guiding
Telling
Able
Only
Directors
Pick
Pick And Choose
Principle
Am
Substance
Stories
Interested
Choose
Starry
Position
Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'
Robert Nozick
People
Reward
Valuable
Value
Society
Distribution
Highest
Feel
Merit
Most
Principle
Does
His
Accordance
According
Intellectuals
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Should
Each
Satisfy
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
Robert Pozen
Great
You
Great Believer
Once
Response
About
Percent
Only
Principle
Read
Am
Handle
Reply
Ohio
Decide
Whether
Then
Require
Internal
Found
Believer
Right
External
Need
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