"Base thy life on principle, not on rules."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Principles Quotes

“The journey is the destination. The process you're in is the goal. Success is never defined by the outcome but by the process.”
“When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.”
“On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.”
“I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!”
“Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!”

Source : "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”
“If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.”

Source : "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.
“The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products.”

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