Practical Purposes Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked…
— George Herbert
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Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without…
— James Van Allen
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The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to…
— Hans Selye
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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
— Alexander John Ellis
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I am only me for practical purposes.
— Julian Baggini
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You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
— Richard Rohr
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If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for…
— Janis Karpinski
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The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have…
— Charles Babbage
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... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can…
— Rene Descartes
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One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing…
— Mike Judge
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores.…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
— George Leonard
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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
— Jean Stafford
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Last year no one in Los Angeles, for all practical purposes, could watch our show, so it was much harder getting good guests.
— Tony Danza
Who Wrote These Practical Purposes Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Practical Purposes Quotes as follows: