Practicals Quotes - Page 10

• Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

  Henry Adams

  Law, Bishops, Unbroken

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.222, Booklassic

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• But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Numbers, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1938.

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• ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Fields, Mechanic, Interest

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.

  Mark Noll

  America, Keys, Understanding

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• Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Thinking, Firsts

  "The Pre-Platonic Philosophers". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, G. Whitlock trans., June 5, 2006.

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• The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Running, Circles, Groups

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Drawing, People

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

  William E. Gladstone

  Character, Evil, Would Be

  Debate on the Women's Disabilities Bill in the House of Commons on May 03, 1871. "Parliamentary Debates", Volume 206, Col. 91,

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• The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Mind, Principles

  "Science and the Modern World". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 1: "The Origins of Modern Science", 1925.

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• Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Peace, Truth

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.196, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Craig Newmark from Nov 28, 2011

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• Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work.

  J.D. Roth

  Smart, Rich, Teach

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• Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Moving, Past

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.722, Bantam

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• A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lunch, Doe, Needs

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.

  C. Wright Mills

  War, Moving, Party

  "The New Men of Power". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1948.

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• Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.

  John Ralston Saul

  Expression, Common Sense, Imagination

  John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

  Michael Pollan

  Mind, World, Tests

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Different, Study

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• Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.

  Joseph Michelli

  Book, Offering, Profound

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• The NLP/HNLP Coach Practitioner Training in combination with Hypnosis I were just the 9 days that I needed. I enjoyed the many practical excercises. As a Coach, building a stronger relationship with my unsconscious mind is the best way I can help my coachees too. Thank you!

  Schalk Burger

  Hypnosis, Mind, Training

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• One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, Lying, Opportunity

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Successful, Matter, Financial

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 65), April 16, 2002.

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• Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sick, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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