Practice Quotes

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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is… — William J. Brennan
The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways… — Robert D. Hales
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding. — Stephen Covey
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in… — Ramakrishna
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just… — Ricardo Semler
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response — Nathan Rosenberg
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. — Harold MacMillan
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they… — Edward Bernays
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. — Hillary Clinton
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and… — Edward Condon
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. — Lewis Mumford
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any… — Potter Stewart
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting… — Sandra Day O'Connor
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America… — Aberjhani
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And… — Ronald Reagan
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence… — Miyamoto Musashi
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but… — Noam Chomsky

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