Practical Quotes

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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people… — Thomas Jefferson
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. — Donna Karan
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler
The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their… — Erwin Rommel
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an… — Dennis Kucinich
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. — Charles Caleb Colton
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,… — Norman Mailer
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization… — Swami Vivekananda
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and… — Samael Aun Weor
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.… — Bertrand Russell
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is… — William Whewell
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it… — Charlie Munger
Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support.… — Patricia Heaton
Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his or her sphere,… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
"Sense of justice is oÂne of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of… — Sarojini Naidu
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a… — Bertrand Russell
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the… — Justus von Liebig
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable… — Cesar Milstein

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