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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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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
"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."
"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
"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."
"After establishing anything as the absolute truth, its' conclusion is reached. It doesn't have to be established as the truth again. What is proven as the eternal established truth for past, present and future is known as the Principle [Siddhant]."
"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us."
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