Practical Quotes

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The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should… — Edward Sapir
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the… — Maurice Saatchi
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for… — Roberto Unger
If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end… — George Weah
If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just… — Sean Young
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier… — Abraham Kuyper
People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now. — Daryl Hannah
The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They… — Frederick Lenz
I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything. — Kristanna Loken
I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience. — Alex Meraz
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and… — Yuri Milner
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be… — Yuri Milner
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of… — Peter Welch
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study… — Elihu Root
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time;… — Swami Vivekananda
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We… — Mikhail Gorbachev
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the… — Arthur C. Clarke

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