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

"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."

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

"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."

"Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for."

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

"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."

"Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

"And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."
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