Practicable Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints — Ludwig von Mises
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
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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