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Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervan

Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. – Edward R. Lyman

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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst. – Charles A. Garfield

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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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