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Practicals Quotes by Henry Adams
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
- Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical,…
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- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. — Henry Adams
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