Practically Quotes
554 quotes by 480 authors
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Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Â Use that freedom.
— Michael Ironside
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We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.
— Rexford Tugwell
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Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith…
— Norman Grubb
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Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close…
— Gary Snyder
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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
— Dennis Weaver
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I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.
— Woody Allen
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and…
— Justin Townes Earle
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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
— Margaret Sanger
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Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.
— Homer
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I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at…
— Bjorn Borg
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them
— Mikhail Lermontov
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of…
— James Russell Lowell
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If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
— Mikhail Tal
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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for…
— Charles Hodge
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around,…
— J D Salinger
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Goals and caps on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.
— James Hansen
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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though…
— Plato
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There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think…
— Isa Chandra Moskowitz
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