1,227 Quotes About Principles

  • Author Ferdinand de Saussure
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    The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

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  • Author Fulton J. Sheen
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    It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

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  • Author Hu Shih
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    The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

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  • Author James Surowiecki
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    A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

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  • Author John Searle
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    The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

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