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“We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.”

Mean Art Remember Spirit Certain Forget Levels Common Our Lives Forgotten Common Sense Awful Instant Ecstasy Rationality Practicality Positivism

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”

“I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.”

I Can Can Do Trouble Practicality

Author:David Byrne

“I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.”

Giving Feels May Book Hands Purpose Turns Sound Simple Pleasure Reader Fit Shapes Paper Pages Give Me Mere Size Patterns Print Practicality Versatility Fonts

Author:Susan Hill

“all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

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Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”

Ifs Break Wall Beats Practicality

Book:The modern prince: and other writings

Source: The modern prince: and other writings

“For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.”

Real Names Fear Common Common Sense Frightened Odds Caution Practicality

Book:Darklost

Source: Darklost

“Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.”

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Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.”

May Form Suffering Turns Culture Religious Inspire Source Birth Drama Authority Illusion Disappointment Awakening Resistance Inherent Discouragement Practicality

Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.”

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Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“There is nothing so practical as a good theory.”

Theory Practicals Practicality

Book:Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers

Source: Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers

“Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.”

Want Ideas Seems Focus Particular Judging Concepts Practicality

Author:Jane Roberts

“Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.”

“Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”

“The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.”

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Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.”

Mean Art Remember Spirit Awful Instant Practicality Positivism

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.”

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Author:King Hussein I

“We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.”

Life Worship Window Dreamer Toss Practicality

Book:Gray

Source: Gray

“A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour.”

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Author:Donatella Versace

“A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.”

Should House Comfort Tradition Synthesis Practicality

Author:Elsie de Wolfe

“Do not put all your eggs in one basket.”

Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)

“When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.”

“Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.”

Feels Mind Looks Body Spirit Dies Bears Wake Up Contact Uplifting Vigor Meanness Mind Body Practicality

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.”

Pleasure Feet Heels Candy Practicality

Author:Christian Louboutin

“And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (pg. 98)”

Source: Life of Pi

“I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Doe Done Political Vision Definitions Practicality

Author:Alan Cranston

“Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.”

Way Done Use Body House Cutting Land Produce Building Mines Comfort Ten Clothes Dresses Simplicity Complicated Fabric Measurement Practicality

Author:Zoran

“I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.”

Horse Ass Carrie Practicality

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.”

Vision Paid Bills Practicality

Author:Paul Engle

“Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.”

Today Form Theory Accepted Yesterday Practicality

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

“It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.”

“Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

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