421 Principle Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European. Gordon Brown

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It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. Gottfried Leibniz

Natural Cause Changes Unable Would Would-Be Follows Since Come Principle Said Just Being Influence Internal Inner External

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. Greg Graffin

Destruction Simple Free Habitat Other License Degrade Somehow Given Over Principle Been Pollution Much Planet Based Species

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Gregory Bateson

Impossible Single Invoking Principle Quantity Any Pattern Explain

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society. Harold Pinter

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That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. Hassan Nasrallah

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In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else. Henning Mankell

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Confidence Trust Win Long Before Differences Field Arbitration Principle Gentlemen Fervently May Justify International Extension Wider

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. Henry Knox

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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. Henry Ward Beecher

Wine Cork Out Must Bottle Knocks Vent Inward Principle Pray

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. Herbert Croly

Political Progressive System Constitute Direction Constructive Pointed Federalism Combination Principle Did Substance Formative Which Formed Republicanism Formula

What gets me excited is the original principle. Heston Blumenthal

Me Excited Principle Gets Original

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. J. C. Ryle

We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point. Jacques Dubochet

Good Three Chemistry Incompetence Everyone Worried Says Promoted Point Remarkable Never Nobel Nobel Prize Reach Reached Until Principle Been Very Prize May Peter Gratified Level

The core principle of Wahhabism is anti-diverse. Jamal Khashoggi

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The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it. James E. Casey

Today Business People Building Ownership Believe Other Our More Employed Principle Than Any Which Company Basic By The People

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it. James Fenton

Luxury Will Poet Somewhere Beauty Preserved Lyric Ruin Mine Find Able Some Someone Poem More Remains Write Nobody Principle Read Than Want Form Published Need Position

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. James Hutton

I'm a great believer in the principle of try it and work it out. If a gadget is designed well, you can easily work out how to use it. But if you can't, it isn't shameful to read the instructions. James May

Work Great You Try Great Believer Easily Out Shameful Instructions Well Principle Read How Gadget Work Out Use Believer Designed

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others. James Surowiecki

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Jane Austen

Life Selfish My Life Practice Though All My Life Principle Been Being

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. Jane Goodall

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