1,227 Quotes About Principles


  • Author Arthur Miller
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    I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

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  • Author David McCullough
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    Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

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  • Author Dmitry Medvedev
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    The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

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  • Author Ernst Mayr
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    The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

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