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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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"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap."

"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."

"Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite."

"Only the 'Right belief' gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as 'Principle'."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right."

"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."

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."

"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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"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."

"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly."

"I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses."
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