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I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.
James Cronin
Research
Tool
Development
Involved
Practical
Spark
Much
Chamber
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
James Forrestal
World
Poison
Aims
Has-Been
Russia
Russian
Fact
Moreover
Simplified
Practical
Been
Accomplishment
Greatly
Antidote
Offered
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
James Mark Baldwin
Thought
Marks
Individual
Self-Consciousness
Practical
Social
Appear
Socrates
Two
The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it's endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it's boring, and everyone's getting sick of it.
James May
Generation
Men
Cute
Believe
Think
Sick
Everyone
Worrying
Plug
Boring
Some
Wire
Put
Day-To-Day
Practical
Shelf
Up
Very
Shirt
Iron
Endearing
Getting
Whereas
Screw
Them
Decline
Skills
Useless
Among
British
In 'Top Gear,' everything goes wrong because you have Jeremy Clarkson, so any practical activity ends in a pile of bits.
James May
You
Everything
Top
Bits
Gear
Wrong
Practical
Because
Pile
Goes
Any
Ends
Jeremy
Activity
I felt that needed to be addressed: the idea that anything a man tries to do properly or thoroughly is dismissed as either metrosexual or OCD. But why can't you be practical and artistic at the same time, which was considered perfectly normal in the Renaissance?
James May
Time
You
Man
Considered
Thoroughly
Tries
Properly
Perfectly
Idea
Renaissance
Practical
Felt
Normal
Same
Artistic
Same Time
Anything
Either
Which
Dismissed
Why
Needed
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
Janis Karpinski
You
Law
Try
Responsibility
Soldiers
Charged
Find
Some
Above
Fact
Purposes
Saddam
Know
Practical
Unusual
Did
In Fact
Might
Using
Enhance
Now
Enhancing
Techniques
We can pass practical, comprehensive immigration reform.
Jared Polis
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Comprehensive
Practical
Pass
Reform
Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.
Jason Statham
Good
Strength
Me
Mirror
Trees
Punch
Run
Tense
Look
Practical
Jump
Going
Interested
Help
Grow
Twist
Muscles
I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
Jason Statham
Me
You
Building
Isolation
Action
Kick
Kind
Know
Practical
Practical Things
Boxing
Lot
Just
Movies
Asked
Sparring
Body
Help
Action Movies
Things
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
Words
World
Other
Immediate
Purely
Self
Contact
Practical
Begins
Stopped
Whereas
In Other Words
Utilitarian
Things
External
External World
For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
Jean Stafford
Home
Purposes
Practical
Left
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
Jemima Khan
Marriage
Mind
Practical
Western
Deeply
It's better not to wear too much jewellery - just a couple of nice things, nothing too rattly - and stick to kitten heels or flats. Women let themselves down with tall heels. I think they're kind of vulgar. I see women sinking into grass at outdoor parties or tiptoeing over gravel at weddings. It's silly. You need to be practical.
Jerry Hall
You
Women
Better
Too Much
Sinking
Nothing
Down
Nice
Grass
Think
Too
Kind
Outdoor
Wear
See
Silly
Weddings
Kitten
Over
Parties
Couple
Practical
Vulgar
Stick
Tall
Just
Flats
Heels
Themselves
Much
Nice Things
Gravel
Things
Jewellery
Need
The answer is that I do want to climb Everest, but I don't want to go to Everest. I don't want to be cold. I can't take the time. It's just not practical.
Jesse Itzler
Time
Cold
Take
Practical
Answer
Climb
Go
Just
Want
Everest
My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.
Joe Kennedy III
Service
Family
Challenges
Commitment
Experience
Decision
Seriously
Own
Difficult
Solutions
Finding
My Own
Both
Look
Practical
Office
Just
Public
Elected
Grounded
Deep
Public Service
Bipartisan
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen
God
Me
Bible
Speak
Try
Language
Everyday
Gifted
Take
Feel
Like
Practical
Make
Principles
Them
I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
Joel Osteen
Bible
More
Practical
Deal
Issues
Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.
Johann Johannsson
Music
You
Sometimes
Space
Rare
Approach
Physical
Seeing
Write
Practical
Without
Edited
Narrative
Occupy
Any
Often
Being
While
Script
Decisions
Interested
Film
Based
Play
Images
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
John Frankenheimer
Director
People
Digital
Revolution
Ability
More
More People
Onto
Put
Importance
Practical
Because
Access
Just
Movie
Disk
Mean
Really
Standpoint
Whole
Film
Number
There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
John Garfield
Home
Money
Revolution
Earn
Some
Something
Like
Practical
Chicken
Going
Farming
Why
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
John Guare
Beautiful
You
People
Value
Wow
See
Spirit
Cost
Beautiful Paintings
Practical
How
How Much
Go
Human
Much
Paintings
Shows
Human Spirit
But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.
John Hutton
Challenge
Collective
Slow
Doubt
Action
Too
Meet
Our
Immense
Scale
Faces
Emerging
Date
No-One
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Practical
Been
Any
Just
Pace
Europe
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.
John Podhoretz
Speak
Job
Difficulties
Way
Those
Solutions
Find
Some
Both
Voters
Practical
Nominee
Offer
Republican
Romney
Them
Groups
Plausible
Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.
John Ralston Saul
Good
Democracy
Way
Extremely
Complex
Finding
Constantly
Some
About
Absolute
Developing
Practical
Comfortable
Within
How
Concrete
Very
Options
Common
Common Good
Grand
Choosing
Express
Searching
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin
Work
Best
Age
People
Doubt
Hesitation
Plodding
Lies
Misery
Powerful
Powerful People
Most
Practical
Well
Doing
Hand
Them
Nearly
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