Practicals Quotes - Page 40

• The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

  Albert Pike

  People, Rude, Ignorant

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

  Kay Bojesen

  Everyday Things, Design, Important

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• Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

  Maria Montessori

  Weapons, Today, Assuming

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• The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.

  Nanette Lepore

  Everyday, Glamour, Bits

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• Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

  Clay Shirky

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• Speaking to the Heart is a great encouragement to men who want to be better husbands and fathers. It is both a practical job description of fatherhood-showing how fathers build strength in their children-and an inspiring call to family leadership. Any father who takes this book to heart and puts its wisdom into action will be known to his children as a great man.

  James Stenson

  Encouragement, Jobs, Children

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• Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cute, Thinking, Littles

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• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

  Maria Montessori

  Exercise, Essence, Environment

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• A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Errors, Practice

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• 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

  Bible, Light, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

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• To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Kindness, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Women, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1107, Library of America

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• To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Love Is, Our Love, Sentimental

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Fall

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Looks, May, Appearance

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

  Saul Bellow

  Lying, Practical Things, Inaction

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

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• We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Cities, Voice

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• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Agony

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

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• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  World, Rooms, Mystery

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• It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

  Thomas Huxley

  Patience, Dirty, Race

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Science & education”

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• Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

  Mark McKinnon

  The End Of The Day, President, Levels

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• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, People, Black

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