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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.
The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism.
A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.
I know I have the support of my managers. But I questioned myself. I reflected on whether I can be suitable for the role of team principal.
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.
As one of the principal responsibilities of the government is to safeguard its citizens, it is entirely reasonable that it should look at what more might be done to improve security.
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.
The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
