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Quote by Jacques Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun

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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – Henrik Ibsen

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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. – Albert Einstein

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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. – Henry Ward Beecher

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