“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

— Thomas Keneally , book Schindler's Ark

Source: Schindler's List

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Australian novelist 1935

Harriet Van Horne (1920–1998) American journalist

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit (1944)

“We should harbor a positive mentality to any cross-strait development and exchange.”

Eric Chu (1961) Taiwanese politician

Eric Chu (2015) cited in " MA-XI MEETING: DPP opposition to Ma-Xi exchange ‘inappropriate’ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/11/06/2003631817" on Taipei Times, 6 November 2015.

“If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of the town.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VII "The Sites for Public Buildings" Sec. 1

“if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Unambiguous pursuit of official goals is not likely to be common.”

Charles Perrow (1925–2019) American sociologist

Source: 1960s, Authority, Goals and Prestige in a General Hospital, 1960, p. 21

“Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.”

Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician

As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
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Context: If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.