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Elwyn Brooks White : Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying. # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Albert Camus : " To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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David Mamet : " The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Fran�ois-Ren� de Chateaubriand : " I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you CANNOT conquer America...As to conquest, therefore, my Lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent—doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies—to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never! never! never! ...I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble Lord frowns with indignation at THE DISGRACE OF HIS COUNTRY! In vain he led your victorious fleets against the boasted Armada of Spain; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Protestant religion of his country, against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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I F Stone : " The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Wyndham Lewis : " Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Aesop : " He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Daniel Webster : " If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Martin Luther : " People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Marquis De Sade : " Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Buckminster Fuller : " There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles. . . . The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles. " # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." # Democracy # Suspicion # Doubt

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." # Automobiles

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Elwyn Brooks White: " One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy." # Enemies

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Elwyn Brooks White: " The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk." # Liberals # Love # Politicians and Politics

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Elwyn Brooks White: " The rules of The Elements of Style were as simple to state — "Omit needless words" — as they were difficult to obey." # Writers and Writing # Style # Words

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Elwyn Brooks White: " The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done." # Neighbors # Dreams # Love

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying." # Principles # Death and Dying # Advertising

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Elwyn Brooks White: " We received a letter from the Writers' War Board the other day asking for a statement on "The Meaning of Democracy." It is presumably our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure. Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don't in don't shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles, the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is the letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn't been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It's the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of the morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is." # Love # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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Elwyn Brooks White: " New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine." # Cities and City Life # Love # Life and Living

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Elwyn Brooks White: " Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword." # Advertising # Dreams # Ambition

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