Quotes with practical-minded

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  • Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bertrand Russell The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carlos Castaneda The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Will Rogers The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Leonard The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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  • Albert Pike The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Alan K. Simpson The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • William Pitt Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut 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
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Susan Sontag War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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