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The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war. — Francis Parker Yockey

I was too practical to want to be a painter. — Paul Rand

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. — Stephen King

Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices. — Julie Connor

But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move. — Gillian Flynn

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this? — T.K. Naliaka

We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time. — William McKinley

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality. — Richard Rohr

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big — Lisa Genova

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate. — Leigh Steinberg

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend ... — Robert Menzies

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. — William James

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. — Rick Snyder

If you're not practical, I've found, it can be difficult to hold on to your ideals, — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction. — Laozi

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can. — JR

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. — Winfield Scott Hancock

The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right. — Debasish Mridha

There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN — Katherine S. Van Wormer

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. — William Osler

Science is a collection of successful recipes. — Paul Valery

Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting. — James A. Owen

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical. — Joel Osteen

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. — Andy Summers

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. — Jonathan Edwards

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. — Kurt Vonnegut

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. — P.T. Barnum

Actually we do everything we can, whether it is in a philosophic sense or a practical sense, to put ourselves at the center of the universe. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him. — Tess Gerritsen

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. — Richard M. Nixon

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams

For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended. — Alan Bradley

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work. — Colin Mochrie

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. — Danielle Steel

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. — David Simon

Communism is fascism, in all practical applications," he was saying now. "Can you think of a Communist country sans dictator? — Sara Novic

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers. — Terry Teachout

Be a practical dreamer backed by action. — Bruce Lee

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant. — Simone De Beauvoir

The world is waiting for a practical demonstration of the Gospel of the grace of God! — Leonard Ravenhill

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

The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect. — M.F. Moonzajer

Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical. They — Liu Cixin

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. — John Clayton

I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible. — Billy Graham

Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work. — Jason Miller

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil, — Keanu Reeves

Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution. — Bob Taft

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. — Geraldine Brooks

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up? — Kit Williams

The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation. — Napoleon Hill

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness. — Alistair Begg

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort. — Hua Ching Ni

She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer. — Aya Ling

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough. — Stephanie Perkins

Economy is idealism in its most practical form. — Calvin Coolidge

That was about as effective as blaming it on God, and as practical, too. You couldn't get a lawyer to sue either of them. — George Alec Effinger

We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. — Oscar Wilde

One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,, — Kish

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. — Helen Keller

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical. — Colin Angle

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference. — Oscar Wilde

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. — John Cheever

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation. — Daniel Goldin

Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives — Sunday Adelaja

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many. — Philip Arthur Fisher

Nothing is more practical than a good theory. — Kurt Lewin

I was lost... lost in a practical world... an ornament with a heart. — Barbara Payton

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners. — James Cook

...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful. — David Novak

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

That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical. — Maggie Stiefvater

On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior:
knowing what is right and doing it. — Michael Josephson

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self. — Lee Roberson

Godliness is practical religion. — Orville Dewey

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis. — Oli Anderson

Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions. — Susanna Clarke

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. — Hyman Rickover

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball. — Ron Luciano

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics. — P.D. James

Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life. — Karen X. Tulchinsky

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared. — Mitt Romney

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. — Susan Mitchell

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer. — H.L. Mencken