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“... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.”

“James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.”

Natural Genius Unions Profound Philosopher Practicals Invention Characteristics Application Peculiar Distinguished Chemist James Watt

Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I

“If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.”

Ifs Should Trying May Mean War Easy Expression Nuclear Practicals Nuclear War

Book:What the Buddha Taught

Source: What the Buddha Taught

“I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.”

Thinking Play Use Bigs Emotional Serious Jokes Practicals Reputation Interviews Being Real Practical Joke

Author:Darren Hayes

“In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.”

People Needs Firsts Real States Community Loss United United States Virtue Taken Distance Practicals Invisible Satisfied Curse Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Transactions

Author:Bill McKibben

“I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to see someday. They range from the practical - jackets with woodstoves in them - to the sublime - images of nuns on waterslides.”

Long Art Ideas Projects Long Time Lists Practicals Range Someday Sublime Jackets Nun Art Projects

Author:Misha Collins

“Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.”

May Practicals Time Travel

Author:Stephen Hawking

“My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Children Film Community Acting Tvs Essentials Doctors Our Children Addiction Lawyer Accepted Practicals Your Children Immigrants Laziness Mum Comprehension

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.”

Believe I Believe Understanding Levels Deals Modern Dying Benefits Tradition Meetings Practicals Buddhist Death And Dying Tibetan Tibetan Buddhist

Author:Dalai Lama

“...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.”

World Important Different Real Running Fun Poor Fiction Tough Claims Practicals Sci Fi Dedicated Nurse Running Away Chef Different Place Another World Escaping Sportsman

Author:Russell T Davies

“Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.”

Decision Tests Investment Practicals Hypothesis

Book:The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market

Source: The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market

“On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.”

Made Book Might Levels Pay Sells Practicals Poetry Is

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because in the real world it often turns out that doing what is morally the right thing is also, in practical terms, the right thing to do.”

Ifs World Real Seems Turns Fall Heaven Term Practicals Things To Do Right Thing Real World Maxims

Author:Gwynne Dyer

“Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.”

Littles Use Courses Imagination Effects Practicals Intuitive Great Imagination

Author:Edgar Cayce

“The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.”

Self Effort Achieve Development Direct Method Practicals Self Development

Author:Hua Ching Ni

“But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.”

Ifs Fall Steps Example Theory Practicals Data Gravity Cliffs

Author:Clayton Christensen

“In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that I would necessarily have gotten anywhere anyway. But it definitely set me back to be in so much pain.”

Writing Sometimes Pain Sitting Practicals Sitting Down

Author:Lynne Tillman

“The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.”

Want Needs Years Looks Vision Five Amount Discipline Ten Practicals Clarity Endurance Application Fifteen End Times Spend Time Fifteen Years Clarity Of Vision

Author:Rory Vaden

“The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.”

“As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.”

Firsts Persons Matter Character Emotion Response Privilege Practicals Intimacy Dramatic Grants Compelling First Person Register Viewpoints Monologues Immediacy Vagrants

Author:Norman Lock

“Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.”

Stills My Friends Envy Practicals Radical Peculiar Amazed Vocation

Author:Debra Dean

“Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.”

Pain Belief Causes Practice Psychology Practicals Application Mistaken True Nature Identifying Contemplative

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.”

“I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic.”

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Author:Regina Taylor

“I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.”

Couple Jokes Practicals Laughed Brando Practical Joke

Author:Johnny Depp

“You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get to a point where the reality is you look at it - and I went through this in my last movie which was a war film, which my brother fought in Iraq and I did a ton of research and as much as I could made it documentary-like - and then at some point on set, the reality is somebody says to you, "You know, you can use a real squib and you can have three hours of clean up and you can lose five shots or we can do that blood explosion in post and you can get those five extra shots."”

Knows Trying Looks Made War Real Use Reality Lasts Film Three Can Do Hours Loses Five Blood Brother Research Shots Clean Iraq Practicals Made It Posts My Brother Extras Documentaries Explosions

Author:Kimberly Peirce

“The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.”

Needs Country Reality Action Order Community Roots Violent Practicals Cooperation Extremism Muslim Community Homegrown

Author:Marco Rubio

“I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.”

People Needs Looks Kind Doe Real Character Use Seems Film Spiritual House Pieces Blood Perspective Scripts Flesh Practicals Demon Occult Flesh And Blood Constantine

Author:Keanu Reeves

“The secular utopians basically said the exact same thing, they just took the Bible out of the equation. The religious and the secular groups recognized each other as fellow travellers. They exchanged newsletters and asked each other questions like, "What's a good soup pot to use if you're making dinner for 800 people?" They had these practical connections.”

People Ifs Said Use Religious Groups Connections Fellows Dinner Practicals Pot Secular Soup Equations Traveller Newsletters

Author:Christine Jennings

“They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have been, 'In the new world women will have total equality, so lets spend our energy creating that whole new world.' And to their credit, the women at Oneida probably had far greater practical equality than what any of the women gathered at Seneca Falls experienced in their lifetimes.”

People Ifs World Want Has Beens Whole Problem Fall Energy Answers Greater Creating Lifetime Feminist Credit Practicals New World Conventions Invited Total Equality

Author:Christine Jennings

“Well, it's not all Americans. But I understand those polls. But as a result of that, that's not going to change my position. I mean I don't think it is even practical and I don't think it's right. I mean just because somebody happens to be of the Muslim faith, doesn't make them a terrorist or make them a threat to America. And we've had relations with people all over the world of the Muslim faith.”

People Thinking World Wells Mean Happens America Results Position Relation Threat Terrorist Practicals Polls Muslim Faith

Author:John Kasich

“I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all.”

Wells May Theory Contrary Practicals Distinction Latter Premises Methodology Deployment

Author:Paul Fry

“The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy and pointless for the chemists to essay physical reductions, or for the biologists to offer number-free explanations. It's a weird kind of science-worship that views these practical considerations as clues to the nature of reality.)”

Kind Reality Views Numbers Moral Practice Offers Worship Practicals Features Explanation Consideration Relevant Metaphysical Clue Essays Messy Mundane Pointless Reduction Biologist Chemist

Author:David Papineau

“But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos and possibly being able to use this [gravitational waves] as a tool in the future maybe to listen not just to black holes colliding, but maybe listen to the big bang itself, those kind of applications may happen in the not too distant future.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Kind May Use Bigs Happens Able Black Tools Wave Practicals Holes Cosmos Application Bangs Implications Black Hole Enriching

Author:Brian Greene

“I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.”

People Thinking Important Buddhism Offers Method Practicals Concrete What's Important

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.”

Natural Roles Depends Discipline Concepts Relation Philosophical Including Practicals Clarity Metaphysics Theoretical Natural Science Employing

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.”

People Ideas Turns Tvs Philosophical Practicals Discussion Frank Turn-on

Author:David O. Russell

“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.”

Giving Hard School Degrees Give Me Expected Practicals Graduates School Of Hard Knocks

Author:David Livermore

“Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.”

Needs Advice Clothes Practicals Auditions Gum

Author:Julie Halston

“When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.”

World Writing Persons Different Shows Bigs Impossible Focused Practicals Mess End Times Spend Time Irresponsible Scheduling Times With Friends

Author:Adam Rapp

“I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.”

Thinking Way Believe Kind Littles Said Character Humanity Bits Term Little Bit Mouths Practicals Coming Out Adore Blah

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“Physics is now saying we might be living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes. We can learn practical and creative things to do with the information.”

Might Universe Numbers Creative Information Infinite Physics Practicals Things To Do Parallels Parallel Universe

Author:Robert Moss

“There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.”

Want Political Middle East Practicals Managers Theme Consideration Middle East

Author:Jeffrey Goldberg

“I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Should Fine Practicals Ipods

Author:Tristan Perich

“It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.”

Reality Political Philosophical Response Practicals Constructs

Author:Jimenez Lai

“Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.”

Mind Feelings Dream Smart Reflection Concern Practicals Your Dreams

Author:Charles McPhee

“I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.”

People Thinking World Needs Facts Helping Spirituality Modern Approach Practicals Modern World Therapeutic

Author:Mitch Horowitz

“I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Book Use Practicals Way Of Thinking

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”

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