Quotes with practical

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  • Bill Rancic Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Angela Carter That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Sir Francis Drake The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Kabbalah The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The least practical solutions have the best acronyms.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Camille Paglia The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt 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
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • James A. Froude The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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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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