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- It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled… — Mel Smith
- Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes
- To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true?… — Abraham Kaplan
- Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — Garry Kasparov
- Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. — Nitin Nohria
- The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. — Charles Sanders Peirce
- I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved… — Brian Ferneyhough
- Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson
- Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch
- Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis
- The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that… — P.J. O'Rourke
- Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky