Word: credo
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...downbeat in the face of adversity. "Being the CEO is great," says the boss of British Airways with a chuckle. "You get all the credit. And you get to blame other people when things go wrong." He's joking. He has to be, for if he lived by this credo, he'd have been pointing his finger nonstop in recent months...
...Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society wrote, “Education […] must uphold at the same time tradition and experiment, the ideal and the means, subserving, like our culture itself, change within commitment.” FAS ignores this credo today, hemming students into low-risk, safety courses—or else leaving us to risk squandering all chance of a good grad school. Only a decisive policy change can resurrect Harvard’s commitment to the pursuit of real scholarship...
...figures still had credibility then, but even as the going got rougher and rougher, no one, and nothing, intimidated David. He was completely committed to the belief that as free journalists we had a duty to find the truth and tell it to the American people. It was a credo he practiced through his years of newspapering and in writing the many distinguished books that followed. It is a credo that makes certain his legacy endures...
Einstein tried to express these feelings clearly, both for himself and all of those who wanted a simple answer from him about his faith. So in the summer of 1930, amid his sailing and ruminations in Caputh, he composed a credo, "What I Believe," that he recorded for a human-rights group and later published. It concluded with an explanation of what he meant when he called himself religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion...
...bound as the stars in their motions," Einstein declared in a statement to a Spinoza Society in 1932. It was a concept he drew also from his reading of Schopenhauer. "Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity," he wrote in his famous credo. "Schopenhauer's saying, 'A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills,' has been a real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life's hardships, my own and others', and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance...