Practicable Quotes
34 quotes by 24 authors
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
— Marcus Aurelius
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings…
— H.G. Wells
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,…
— Oliver Heaviside
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation…
— Ralph Lapp
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We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has…
— Madame de Stael
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for…
— Lord Kelvin
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And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
— John Quincy Adams
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Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
— Ludwig von Mises
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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below…
— Nikola Tesla
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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