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"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."
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"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap."
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"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
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"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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"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
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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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"In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right."
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
Knowledge
"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
Society
"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
Cause
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
Politics
"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."
Truth
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."
Love
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion
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