Practically Quotes

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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships… — Alexander McCall Smith
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life.… — Marshall McLuhan
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. — Eleanor Roosevelt
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally,… — Thomas A. Edison
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If,… — Sun Tzu
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him… — Charles Studd
Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days,… — Lee Child
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of… — Ira Remsen
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression. — Betty Goodwin
...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my… — Jerry Fodor
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once… — Henry David Thoreau
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen
The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There is no way… — Stefan Rahmstorf
We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. — John Jay Chapman
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that… — Robert Henri
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I… — Dorothea Lange

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