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I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.
George Mason
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal.
Joseph Conrad
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
Giacomo Casanova
When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
Luca Pacioli
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.
Adam Smith
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.
Paul A. Baran
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.
Norman Davies
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
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Suze Orman
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Howard Gardner
Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
Alfred Doblin
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
Christian Lous Lange
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
Michel Legrand
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller
The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal, which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.
Patricia C. Wrede
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
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
Dee Hock
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
Edwin Moses
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