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23 quotesPractical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Brooks Adams
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
Chance
George Earle Buckle
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Spirit and Spirituality
Thomas Carlyle
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Platitudes
George Eliot
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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Belief
James A. Froude
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Learning
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Failure
Thomas H. Huxley
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
Possibilities
George Leonard
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Writers and Writing
Groucho Marx
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Forgiveness
Margaret Mitchell
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Prayer
Austin O'Malley
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
Civilization
George Orwell
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
Theory
William Pitt
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Politicians and Politics
Will Rogers
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Uncategorised
Theodore Roosevelt
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Prayer
George Santayana
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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Knowledge
Source Unknown
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Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Intuition
Source Unknown
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Information
Oscar Wilde
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Gossip
Walter Winchell
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun