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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them - alfred adler Options
frasha4ever
Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 2:28:15 PM
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what does it mean? does it mean that its easy to say things but not to actually do them?

thanks in advance
abcxyz
Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 2:43:29 PM

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It means it is easier to talk about your principles, quarrel and pick up fights to defend those than to practise them in your life. One example: a person beats up another person for molesting a girl(violation of women's rights) and then goes back home and rapes his wife.

In this world there is no literate population that is poor and no illiterate population that is other than poor. - J.K.Galbraith
jmacann
Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:44:26 PM
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler
Marissa La Faye Isolde
Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:22:13 PM
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I think living by one's principles is very difficult indeed.
jcbarros
Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:47:42 PM
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These are my principles. If you don´t like them...well, I have others. (Groucho,you were a genius)
Marissa La Faye Isolde
Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:08:15 AM
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Groucho yea!:)
pedro
Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:04:53 AM

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what principles?

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon" Suzanne Ertz
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