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To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience. William Cobbett

Love Family Obedience Fear Father Will Rule Must Only He Principle Gentle Unwilling His Dutiful Short-Lived Sway

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. William Godwin

Perseverance Active Operate Principle Continue Influence Cannot Desire

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred. William Godwin

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe. William Godwin

Great World Universe Harmony Everything Seems Great Principle Principle Gradual Process

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Strong Some Except Foolish Nobody Principle Very Did Anything Ever

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. William Robertson Smith

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Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. Wyndham Lewis

Immaculate Has-Been Some Compromising Had Put Almost Almost Anything Principle Praised However Been Disgusting Anything Use

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security. Yitzhak Rabin

Important Our Responsible Security Only Principle Israel

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle. Yusuf Hamied

Suffering Principle Fundamental Fundamental Principle

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle. Yuval Noah Harari

Saying People Nation Unity Everybody Say Has-Been Since Principle Been Same Human Fiction Dots Connect Imaginary

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution. Yuval Noah Harari

Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on double jeopardy - which prevents the government from trying someone twice for the same crime - doesn’t apply if the second trial is by a different 'sovereign' - in this case, the state. Asha Rangappa

In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted in the bedrock principle of freedom, including the right to free expression. Ted Lieu

January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems in. Paula White

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We are often told that curtailing the freedom of business is coercive and undemocratic. But by what democratic principle should corporations and billionaires decide the fate of current and future generations? When a government releases them from regulation, it allows them to determine whether other people live or die. George Monbiot

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I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle. Elizabeth May

Will Group Respectful Possible Principle Stick Demonstrate Canadians Green Want Ethical Working Hard Who Hard-Working Actually

Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain. Linford Christie

Training Style Everything Compliments Kinetic Lifting Perfectly Principle Sure Does Making Sprint Movements Body Connected Fully Chain Based Olympic

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. Andrew O'Hagan

Good People Depend Nationalism Struggling Myths Principle Common Common People Commonality

Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle. Joe Sestak

Constitution Thus Executive Principle Limited Very Privilege Found Nowhere

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. Barack Obama

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For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution. Uday Kotak

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