Practice Quotes

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The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in… — Sheila Jackson Lee
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,… — Richard Preston
Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. — Joseph M. Juran
A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy.… — L. Ron Hubbard
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when… — Maria Montessori
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action.… — Paulo Freire
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world;… — Paulo Freire
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is… — Kodo Sawaki
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try… — Gabriela Sabatini
In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into… — Andrew Sullivan
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are… — Paul Dudley White
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. — Jared Diamond
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. — Alfred Kazin
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but… — Amanda Beard
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we… — Masanobu Fukuoka

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