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Practical Quotes (page 20)

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank. Philip K. Dick
You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. Richard Bach
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? Joyce Carol Oates
The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Whereas life, real life, is different and can't even be appraised as simply "happy", but only in terms of "Yes, I'll take it all, thanks" or "No, I believe I won't." Happy, as my poor father used to say, is a lot of hooey. Happy is a circus clown, a... Richard Ford
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the... Michel Foucault
Richard P. Feynman quote: "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,..."
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. Richard P. Feynman
The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought all day long. Tony Blair
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative. Kim Stanley Robinson
Choose now,' he spat, his eyes practically shooting sparks. 'Me or him.''Gosh, Fang, you romantic fool,' I said sarcastically. 'How incredibly sexist pig of you. James Patterson
At the beginning of a campaign it is important to consider whether or not to move forward; but when one has taken the offensive it is necessary to maintain it to the last extremity. However skilfully effected a retreat may be, it always lessens the morale of an army, since in losing the chances of success, they are remitted to the enemy. A retreat, moreover, costs much more in men and materials than the bloodiest engagements, with this difference, also, that in a battle the enemy loses... Napoleon Bonaparte
Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done. John Grisham
Jonathan Franzen quote: "She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of..."
She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all. Jonathan Franzen
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long... Margaret Thatcher
Stephenie Meyer quote: "He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way..."
He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way youlook right now...You're much more than beautiful. Stephenie Meyer

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