Practical Quotes

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... — Immanuel Kant
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means… — Avicenna
Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the… — Mark McClellan
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical… — Gustav Nossal
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take… — John Beddington
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. — Charles Simmons
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter… — John Stewart Bell
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are… — Aristotle
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that… — Gough Whitlam
Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals. — Albert Einstein
I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke. — Steven Morrissey
If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the… — Kurt Vonnegut
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability… — Achim Steiner
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know… — Rhianna
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. — Mahatma Gandhi
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. — William Osler
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to… — Olof Palme
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. — Richard M. Nixon

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