Quotes with practical-minded

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  • Friedrich von Schiller Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • A. J. McLean Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Will Rogers Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Werber Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Plutarch Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Karl Marx 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
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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