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“I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."”

“Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“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.”

Character Would Be Evil Movement Objects Election Practicals Suspicion Intervention Proceeding Promoters Attendance

Author:William E. Gladstone

“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.”

Way God Truth Religion Peace Creation Objects Practicals Hypocrisy Nonsense Serving Preaching Serving God Agnostic Doing Good

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.”

Whole Might Effects Objects Practicals Conception

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.”

Firsts Has Beens Principles Objects Development Practicals

Author:James Prescott Joule

“The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.”

Giving Facts Use Process Objects Higher Resources Practicals Combination Analysis Latter Interpretation Engines Efficiency

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.”

“My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.”

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Book:Andy Warhol

Source: Andy Warhol

“The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.”

Reason Evil Principles Objects Practicals Former Good And Evil Latter

Book:The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning: From the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Perpetual Peace & Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals

Source: The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning: From the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Perpetual Peace & Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals

“Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.”

World Shows Tree Objects Practicals Significance Pot Engagement Hammers Heidegger

Author:David E. Cooper