Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2432 authors
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Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are…
— David Barton
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I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of…
— Jonathan Kellerman
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The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into…
— Steve King
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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
— Bruno Latour
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Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.
— Karch Kiraly
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We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.
— Graca Machel
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I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the…
— Jake Pitts
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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely…
— Mark Twain
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If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
— Lincoln Steffens
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The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
— Dick Cavett
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Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home?…
— Steven Levitt
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Practice random acts of . . . Grumpiness.
— Grumpy Cat
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Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
— Janet Yellen
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When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of…
— Kim Gordon
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Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to…
— Charlie Munger
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Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death,…
— Jayne Anne Phillips
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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal…
— John Galt
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A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental…
— Bela Karolyi
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