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• If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Suffering, Trying, Way

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Procrastination, Unfinished Business, Effort

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• Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

  Mao Zedong

  Example, Tasks, Losing

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• The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spread, Effects

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1894). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Doe

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, World, Considerate

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• You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Great Inventions, East

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• Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

  James C. Collins

  Work, Circles, Three

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• 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

  Adventure, Understanding, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.208

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• In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.

  Vincent de Paul

  Order, Imagination, Faithful

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Men, Thinking

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• It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

  Mao Zedong

  Two, Achievement, Purpose

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

  Dave Reichert

  People, House, Energy

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• No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, May, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the
  ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them
  irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that
  progress and pleasure go together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Humorous, Justice

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• Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

  Edmar Mednis

  Success, Play, Chess

  Edmar Mednis (1983). “From the opening into the endgame”, Pergamon

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• People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

  Louis Zamperini

  Believe, Glasses, People

  Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2014). “Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Thinking, Doctors

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• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Civilization, Skills, Achievement

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Mind, Awful, Scripture

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “Sovereignty of God”, p.225, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

  John McGahern

  Class, People, Catholic

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, May, Strive

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• My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Practice, Care

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Leadership, Sports, Important

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