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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion. Aml Ameen
Life Funny Hope Best You Reality Projection Witness Mind Feeling Live Funny Thing Once Worst Arabic Something Investing Delusion Name Suppose Principle Exist To Live By Turning Means Your Thing Desire Alchemy
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. Bernard de Mandeville
Quality World Passion Hypocrisy Every Our Easily Seeds More Habit Sooner Nobody Principle Learned Without Nor Deny Than Hearts Any Them Acquired Us Sentiments Act Thing Innate
The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Negotiating Only Principle Terrorists The Only Thing Hold Thing
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. Dee Hock
Best Heart People Money Mind Neither Spirit Morality Touch Principle Motivates Nor Move Influence Cannot Body Belief Reserved
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed. Emmeline Pankhurst
Women Liberty Men Country Practice Few Situation Every Earth Indeed Tried Unpleasant Entirely Civilized Exceptions Had Putting Come Force Principle Principles Discovered Very Intended Any Then
In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed. Fatema Mernissi
Equality Strict Sex Leader Islam Politicians Virtue Everything Has-Been Able Almost Thus Supporters Between Almost Everything Principle Islamic Renounce Been His Human Human Beings Regardless Central Manipulate Race Far Convince Beings Fundamentalist Societies Creed
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense. Fidel Castro
Law Crime Type Criminal Criminal Law Correspond Must Exactly No Law Point Principle Question Offense Imputed Then Fundamental Fundamental Principle
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. Frances Wright
Ethics First Lose Action Else Beneficial Sight Moral Find Morals Something Something Else Wrong True Ideas Principle Real False Than Departure Substitute Now Right Here Basis Associated Consequent
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Great Events Pressure General Gives Principle Help
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass
Work Age Conflict Will Busy Melancholy Absolute Dawn Soon Come Principle Without Perpetually Leisure Then Busyness Utopia Utopian Consciousness Coincide
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. Hanna Rosin
Rights Son Long Few Has-Been Civilization Through Exceptions Principle Been Existed Patriarchy Enforced Organizing Nearly
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding
Adversity Man Trial He Principle Knows Without Whether Hardly Honest
It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about. Jack Canfield
You Think About Strongly More Feel Talk Principle Get Universal
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent. James Cromwell
Respond About Magnificent Principle Non-Violence Hold Decide Turn Really Stand Ground Humans
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. Jane Smiley
Experience Only Contain Principle Motivation Against Stand Reasons Desire
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. Jerry Brown
Family Creative Charity Equality Challenge Power Community Neighborhood Restore Principle
The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself. John Gokongwei
Life Best Myself Win Will Important Few Depend Lesson Teenager Guiding Those Has-Been Bad Something Picked Since Know Principle Deal Always Important Thing Been Up Person Wanted Us Ever Play Thing Cards
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ. John Paul Jones
Alone Class Those Determines Adventurers Employ Well Principle Self-Interest Than Owners Common Mankind Whom
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. John Tyler
Nature Man More Pursue Leads Him Principle His Governs Than Fixed Which Interest
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. John Witherspoon
Conversation Trust Men Wish State Ought Those Inward Well Principle Exemplary Places Justified Choose Who
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. Julia Gillard
Game Together Wealth Prosperity Guiding Shared Economy Global Global Economy Principle Create Zero-Sum
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. Karel Capek
People Own Never Principle Principles Knows Personal Personal Satisfaction Whether Satisfaction
The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. Kofi Annan
Human Being World Worth United Nations Every States Membership Almost Almost All Equal Principle Human Nations Being United Whose Founded
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. Lajos Kossuth
Neutrality Lasting Evidence Weakness Principle
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. Larry Elder
Charity Welfare Behavior Corporate Responsible Principle Makes Private Role Personally Less
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. Leo Szilard
Good Genius Better Idiot Draw Favor Someone Step Takes Democratic Principle Idiots Line Than Next Next Step Two
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