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• The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
  see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Marriage, Children, Government

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• The principal person in a picture is light.

  Edouard Manet

  Light, Vision, Awe

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• My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

  Edwin Moses

  Mother, Father, School

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

  Richard Branson

  Views, Challenges, Point Of View

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• The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Science, Data

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Team, Want, Health And Life

  "Report: Peru rejects rebels' demands to free prisoners". December 20, 1996.

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• An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Party, Names

  Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards, June 24, 1938.

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• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

  Barbara Jordan

  Technology, Airports, Years

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• We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Magic, Littles

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  Edmund Burke

  Riches, Limits, Frugality

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• Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

  David Cameron

  Integrity, Membership, Fairness

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• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Heart, People

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• A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Love You, School

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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• Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Blank Mind, Steps

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1893). In "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (1893) Holmes tells Doctor Watson, "All things should be seen exactly as they are."

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• In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Theme, Interest

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the collective energy of the group from which power comes. The principal driving force that lies before us is that we have to recognize the nature of community as the evolutionary step that we just took a step backwards from in the last century.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Lying, Community, Energy

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• And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mean, Hunting, White

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• To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Perfection

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.3064, Delphi Classics

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• We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

  Fisher Ames

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

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• Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

  Donald Worster

  Strong, Commitment, Simple

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• That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Thinking, Alive

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

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• I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

  Pete Townshend

  Hearing, Trouble, Deaf

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• There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

  Arlen Specter

  Health, Important, Assets

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• [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, People, Acting

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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