“ Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
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“ The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ”
- Cadet Maxim- Copy
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“ Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilization of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
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“ All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. ”
- George Earle Buckle- Copy
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“ In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable. ”
- Sir Francis Drake- Copy
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“ The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. ”
- Kabbalah- Copy
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“ The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ”
- George Leonard- Copy
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“ Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. ”
- William Pitt Chatham- Copy
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“ To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. ”
- Donna Karan- Copy
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“ Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
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“ To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
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