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原则
Principle
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
在风格上，随波逐流;在原则上，坚如磐石。
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
如果我们抹杀个人责任原则，欧洲模式将处于危险之中。
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
原则最有用的地方是，它总是可以为权宜之计而牺牲。
One of our most fatal errors is assuming that our principles will insure their own observance.
我们最致命的错误之一是假定我们的原则将确保它们自己得到遵守。
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
工作对我来说很重要。我做事要有原则，而不只是为了做事。
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
成功的首要原则是欲望——知道自己想要什么。欲望是你种下的种子。
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
文明国家的首要原则是，只有在合同的约束下，权力才是合法的。
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
推动社会进步的不是技术，也不是所谓的发展;这就是爱——这是唯一的原则。
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
人是一种方法，一种渐进的安排;一个选择的原则，收集他喜欢他;不论走到哪里,都是公众。
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
我认为一个人原则上一年至少应该喝醉两次，这样他就不会因此而沾沾自喜了。
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
你的生活越多地建立在原则之上，越少地建立在你或他人的个性之上，你的人生道路就会越笔直。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Meditation is the saving principle; it makes you immortal and eternal.
冥想是救赎的原则;它使你不朽和永恒。
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
这个国家孕育于自由之中，奉行的原则包括:诚实的人可以诚实地提出异议;如果他们都能说出自己的想法，大多数人就能分清是非。
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
但是，恢复秩序作为一项普遍原则，同时也表明，秩序本身并不足以说明一般有组织的系统的性质，或特别是人类创造的系统的性质。
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
这意味着，对科学的信任——或根据科学原则的刻意控制——超过科学方法所能达到的程度，可能会产生可悲的后果。
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
只要有一个原则存在争议，任何人都可以决定一个问题。
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
因此，有时事实是好的，有时事实是坏的，从像言论自由一样广泛和重要的原则的观点来看，重要的事情是法院以一种非常保护的方式阐明这些原则是什么。