“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
“It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.”
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1990s, The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)
Source: How Will You Measure Your Life?
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Context: 1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding.
2. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer, from someone else entitled to the holding, is entitled to the holding.
3. No one is entitled to a holding except by (repeated) applications of 1 and 2.