Practical Quotes

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
Politics Safety Aim Menacing Practical Led Endless Them Populace Whole Series Keep Hence Imaginary
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley
Truth Great Silence Eloquent Totalitarian About More Point Could Point Of View Simply Most Practical Greater Opinion Still Subjects Effectively Than Influenced Much Certain View
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft
Truth Religion Try Insist Young Consequences Backgrounds Would Followers True Merely Practical Were Quest Artificial Irrespective Conformity
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. Henry A. Wallace
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My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything. Tavi Gevinson
Life Best Myself Day You Trust Wake Up Try My Life Joke Too Everyone Out Freak About Never Excited Put Disappointed Long-Running Like For The Day Know Practical Wake Up Motto Expectations Get Any Anything Really Lower Your Standards Prepare Ever Basically
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. Abraham Lincoln
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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
Language Leader Visionary Must Idealist Talk Practical Realist
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession. Queen Elizabeth II
Creative Science Heart Engineering Solutions Find About Noble Practical Profession Using
The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect. Florence Nightingale
Important Lesson Symptoms Nurses Neglect Evidence Kind Indicate Given Observe Importance Most Practical None How Reverse Improvement The Most Important Which Them Teach
A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless - it can be passed on to future generations. Liu Wen
Future Nice Earrings Future Generations Outfit Touch Only Both Finishing Perfect Generations Bag Also Practical Passed Timeless Any While Decorative Fun Unique Pair Watch Basically
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. Sun Tzu
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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' Erma Bombeck
Time Sign Take Put Practical Years Very Children Rooms View Each Raising Raising Children
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt
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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. Herman Melville
Life Man Strange Joke Universe Vast Takes Practical Call Occasions Affair Mixed Queer His Times Certain Whole
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant
Good Good And Evil Evil Those Latter Object Objects Only Also Practical Principle According Former Meant Reason Therefore Shunned Necessarily Desired
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
Hope Three Ought Following Combine Know Practical Well Questions May Interests Reason Speculative
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. John Muir
Soil Relations Our Importance Practical Climate Augmented Forests Streams Preservation
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. John Ruskin
Architecture First Goodness Duty Pleasing Kinds Practical Well Buildings Doing Graceful Then Require Two
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi
Religion Solve Takes Practical Does Affairs Account Them Help
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. Pericles
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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. Stephen Hawking
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale
Wonderful Opportunity Lose Matters Beginning Small Never Practical How However Itself Often Urging Roots
I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common. Iris Apfel
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Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God. Melody Beattie
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I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams. Rani Mukerji
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. Susan B. Anthony
God Obedience Women Old Tyranny Earnestly Recognition All Women Shall Practical Continue Revolutionary Maxim Urge Resistance
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