Practically Quotes
554 quotes by 480 authors
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
— Emanuel Lasker
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Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your…
— Gordon Ramsay
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I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-…
— Adolf Hitler
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Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil…
— Louis Thomas McFadden
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It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war…
— Charles Barkley
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If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
— Howard Zinn
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As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had…
— Lauren Graham
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I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor whos been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone…
— Jennifer Grey
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Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
— Loni Anderson
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I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was…
— Josh Hutcherson
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As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and I…
— Joan Jett
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Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful…
— Daniel Bryan
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