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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Men

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

  Paul Theroux

  Buddhism, Principles, Neglect

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• The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Yield, Achievement

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.

  Carolyn Porco

  Adventure, Goal, Joy

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• What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teaching, Discovery, Quality

  "Memoirs". Book by Pierre Trudeau, 1993.

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• It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.

  A. D. Coleman

  People, Coincidence, Victim

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• I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

  George Will

  Illinois, Chicago, Fans

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, 1994–2010.

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• Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Army, Enemy, Trying

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• There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.

  Dennis Green

  Typical, San Diego, Minnesota

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• The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

  Walter Bagehot

  Investing, Aids, Establishment

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Fashion, Philosophy, Views

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Reality, Thinking, Understanding

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• There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.

  Joel Spolsky

  Writing, Thinking, Law

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

  John Weitz

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

  Malcolm Knowles

  Party, Intelligence, Principles

  Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1984). “The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species”, Gulf Publishing Company

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• To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

  Jon Evans

  Life, Abuse, Society

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• In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

  Carl Icahn

  Business, Mistake, Self Esteem

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• The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

  Vicente Huidobro

  Three, Four, South

  Vicente Huidobro, Eliot Weinberger (2003). “Altazor (Revised Edition).”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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• To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

  Plato

  Jobs, Men, Discipline

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

  Ross Douthat

  Years, Catholic, Church

  "A Time for Contrition". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 2010.

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• The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but also seems like the cardinal truth of life - it appears as if the whole of life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it, or become oblivious to it, everywhere death remains close to us. Death is even closer to us than our own shadow.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Lying, Shadow

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• The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Humility, Enemy, Atheism

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.149, Transaction Publishers

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• Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

  Jim Cramer

  Birthday, Business, Fate

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