Quotations and Literature Forum

have any one come across a qoutation that convey the following:
sometimes applying principles causes complecations, or leads to destruction.
Or the way we apply pinciples determines the outcome. Because sometimes poeple apply them stffly & they fot a reversed result.

the choices we make, not the chances we take, determine our destiny

Important principles may and must be inflexible. Abraham Lincoln

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

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov