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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. — Hosea Ballou
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. — Stanley Crouch
In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited… — Unknown Author
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are… — Andre-Marie Ampere
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of… — John Gorrie
The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — Unknown Author
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. — Sally Miller Gearhart
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people… — Mother Teresa
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame… — Lewis Mumford
The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'. — Kenneth Myers
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the… — H. L. Mencken
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on… — Tom Hodgkinson
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is… — Pat Roberts
The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the… — Sun Tzu
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced… — Unknown Author

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