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• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Army, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик

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• It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

  Lewis Mumford

  Writing, Men, Toys

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

  Morgan Ensberg

  Games, People, Balls

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• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Song, Simple, Land

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

  Pat Robertson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessing

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• The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

  Samuel Smiles

  People, Excellence, Capacity

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• All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Justice, Social, Existence

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Soul, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.102, Coyote Canyon Press

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• I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Industrialization

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.44

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• Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all other ... a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Years, Water

  James A. Michener (2013). “Hawaii: A Novel”, p.19, Dial Press

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• The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Foundation

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• Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Misery

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Class, Worry

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• I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise.
  2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost.
  3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.
  4. Take now and then a day's rest.
  5. Get a smart seasickness if you can.
  6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy.
  This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Exercise, Journey

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1952). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782”

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• My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

  Richard Dawkins

  Motivation, War, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

  Neil Postman

  Knowing, Culture, Television

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• The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power, Tyrants, Political

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• The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cleverness, Know How, Knows

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• God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, Character, Men

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• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Leadership, Philosophy, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the west coast. I built my career up by doing small roles (which led) to principal roles and getting bumped into main character roles.

  Drew Waters

  Character, Careers, Small Roles

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Events, Causes, Prophecy

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.580

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• What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

  Dan Jones

  Eye, Firsts, Duty

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