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• Principle is ever my motto, not expediency. -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Sybil, Book ii, Chap.
  ii...
• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham...
• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham, "The Circle...
• You do well in speculation where land or anything to do with earth is involved.
• A university is a place where men of principle outnumber men of honor. -- Ernest May
• You may know where the market is going, but you can't possibly know where it's going after that.
  -- Heisenberg Principle of Investme...
• Are deaf psychiatrists better listeners?
• When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening
  circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe....
• Rhode's Law: When any principle, law, tene
  probability, happening, circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe....