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«Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.»
Author: Meg Greenfield
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
in practice, in principle, objections, stiff, stiffest, stiffing
«When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
carrying, intention, in practice, in principle, out in, slightest
«The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Evolution
| Keywords:
complexity, cumulative, evolution, explaining, in principle, natural selection, selection, selections, theory of, theory of evolution
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
approves, carrying, intention, in practice, in principle, out in, slightest
«Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
famine, features, in principle, oppose, pestilence
«I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be 'normal.' It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle equally subjective.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
broadest, dialogue, in principle, presumed, psyche, subjective, therapist, therapists
«I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest»
«Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Moderation,
Virtue
| Keywords:
in principle, moderation, temper, vice
«Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
inconsistencies, in practice, in principle, the British
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