Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

A.C. Grayling

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Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Ian Fleming

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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

Cyril Connolly

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Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Charlotte Brontë

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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

Alan W. Watts

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There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Albert Dietrich

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