Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
