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“That didn’t happen, but what did happen is that Kolby found a way to come back full circle to the basic principles of love and aloha.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

Per the World Health Organization, a healthy diet is made up of four basic principles: adequacy, balance, moderation and diversity.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

One of the basic principles of long-term investing is asset allocation: putting a predetermined amount of money into a particular holding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

While this result surprises some physicists, others see it as a natural outcome of one of the most basic principles of quantum mechanics known as unitarity.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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