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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle."
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Personal Development
"It is values that form our decisions."
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Personal Development
"Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking."
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Personal Development
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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Personal Development
"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
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Personal Development
"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
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Personal Development
"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
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Personal Development
"In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right."
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Personal Development
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
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Personal Development
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
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"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."
Knowledge
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
Philosophy
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
Fiction
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
Philosophy
"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
Irony
"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
Philosophy
"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."
Behavior
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night."
Society
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