Practical Quotes

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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft"… — Tom Peters
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out… — William Morris
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes… — Lois McMaster Bujold
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against… — Max Brooks
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a… — P.G. Wodehouse
The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of… — Francis Schaeffer
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned… — Russell Baker
But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too… — J D Salinger
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest… — Aristotle
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the… — Philip K. Dick
Iâ€™ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical… — Sharon Kay Penman
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each otherâ€™s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real… — Dalai Lama
It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have… — L. Frank Baum
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words,… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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