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• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles M. Vest

  Respect, Military, Long

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• The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

  Denis Fahey

  War, Order, Democracy

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• The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Unity, Essentials, Republic

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• The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Spirit

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• The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Forever, World, Paradise

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Schocken

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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  Priorities, United States, Terrorist

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• ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

  Saul Bellow

  Confusion, Age, Eras

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Tea

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• My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Religion, Slavery

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2437, Library of Alexandria

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Drama, Character, Greatness

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• Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

  David Brin

  People, Age, Doe

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Heaven, Monsters

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.14

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• Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Men, Joy

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• Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Jobs, Theatre, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

  Douglas Hurd

  Past, Ideas, Understanding

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• Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

  Simone Elkeles

  Order, Office, Feel Good

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.279, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

  Marshall Ganz

  Inspirational, Kindness, Choices

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

  Joyce Cary

  Freedom, Mind, Facts

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

  George Santayana

  Boston, Cities, Intellectual

  "Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts".

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• The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Soul, World

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Sugar, Life Is, Intimacy

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

  Alan I. Leshner

  People, Fields, Facts

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• Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

  Neil Postman

  Intellectual, Might, Instruments

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.173, Vintage

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• My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Doubt, Sin

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.527, Modern Library

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